Serina Robinson
Research Group Leader, Tenure-track at Eawag
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolSerina Robinson is a research group leader on the tenure track at Eawag, leading environmental microbiology and computational biology efforts from Zurich. With a PhD in Microbiology and an MS in Bioinformatics from the University of Minnesota, she blends genome mining and machine learning to predict microbial biosynthesis and biodegradation pathways. Over a decade in academia and research, she has advanced cross-institution collaborations, including a postdoctoral tenure at ETH Zürich and visiting work at Wageningen, plus Fulbright and GRO fellowships. Her interdisciplinary training—from BA in Chemistry to computational biology—underpins a track record of turning complex omics data into testable, impact-driven insights for environmental microbiology. Based in Switzerland with roots in the US academic system, she stands out for integrating rigorous wet-lab knowledge with scalable computational methods to tackle real-world biotechnological challenges.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Microbiology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Microbiology at University of MinnesotaLincoln High School, Sioux Falls, SDBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Chemistry, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Chemistry at St. Olaf College
Norwegian, Norwegian
Github Skills (16)
r-language8
prediction8
missing-data8
tidymodels8
r-package8
tidyverse8
modeling7
r7
tidy7
dplyr6
hypothesis-testing5
regression-models5
statistics5
functional-programming4
substrate4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
serina-robinson/thiolase-machine-learning
Oct 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:3 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
serina-robinson/example-classification
Nov 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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