Biography
Loïc is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge in the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit (Department of Public Health and Primary Care) and the VPD Heart and Lung Research Institute. He is a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow, a visiting scientist at EMBL-EBI, a College Associate at Jesus College, Cambridge, and an Associate Fellow of Advance HE.
He first studied in Paris (France) at Lycée Saint-Louis and ENSAE Paris where he earned a BSc and a French Diplôme d’Ingénieur (MSc) majoring in mathematics and statistics, with minors in theoretical physics and economics. He then earned an MSc in statistics and machine learning from the University of Oxford. He joined Cambridge and the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit (Dept of Public Health & Primary Care) in 2018 for a PhD in Health Data Science supervised by Prof. Michael Inouye and supported by the MRC-DTP. His PhD, completed in 2022, looked at machine learning tools used to predict protein-protein interactions and the carbon footprint of computational research. From 2022 to December 2024, he continued in Cambridge as a Research Associate to pursue his work on Environmentally Sustainable Computational Science. He started his own research group in the same department at the start of 2025.
Research
I am particularly interested in understanding and mitigating the environmental impacts of scientific computing. This involves building tools for carbon footprint monitoring, contributing to sustainability policies and designing frameworks for sustainable research. In particular, I lead the Green Algorithms Initiative (www.green-algoriths.org) and manage the Green DiSC certification framework for sustainable computing (www.software.ac.uk/GreenDiSC). I am also interested in radiogenomics, i.e. combining medical imaging and genetic information with machine learning to better understand and treat cardiovascular diseases. This work is part of the Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative led by Prof. Michael Inouye.
Publications
L. Lannelongue, HE. G. Aronson, A. Bateman, E. Birney, T. Caplan, M. Juckes, J. McEntyre, A. D. Morris, G. Reilly, M. Inouye. 2023. “GREENER Principles for Environmentally Sustainable Computational Science” Nature Computational Science https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-023-00461-y
L. Lannelongue, J. Grealey, M. Inouye. 2021. “Green Algorithms: Quantifying the Carbon Footprint of Computation” Advanced Science https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202100707
L. Lannelongue, M. Inouye. 2023. “Carbon Footprint Estimation for Computational Research” Nature Reviews Methods Primers https://doi.org/10.1038/s43586-023-00202-5.
P. Weber, …, L. Lannelongue, …., F. M. Watt. 2023“The Heidelberg Agreement on Environmental Sustainability in Research Funding” Policy document 10.5281/ZENODO.13938809.
Y. Xu, S. C. Ritchie, …, L. Lannelongue, …, M. Inouye. 2023. “An atlas of genetic scores to predict multi-omic traits” Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05844-9
Full list on Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VRr3DlcAAAAJ&hl=en).
Teaching and Supervisions
I supervise* a number of courses in the departments of computer science, mathematics and medicine. Mostly courses around statistics, probability and bioinformatics. I also supervise MPhil students in the department. * Cambridge undergraduate supervisions = small group teaching
Environmentally sustainable computational science, green computing
Other Professional Activities
I am also the Chair of the Green Task Force of the International Society of Computational Biology and sit in the Green Committee of the Department of Public Health and Primary Care here in Cambridge.
