Alessia Visconti
Assistant Professor at Università degli Studi di Torino
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
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Top SchoolAlessia Visconti is an Assistant Professor and bioinformatics expert with nine years of experience developing statistical and computational methods to link multi-omics signals to complex human phenotypes. Her work spans reverse engineering of gene regulatory networks, reproducible metagenomics pipelines, and scalable data engineering—extending CERN’s ROOT library to efficiently store genomic data is a notable cross-disciplinary contribution. She has led translational projects on melanoma, IgA nephropathy, microbiome–health interactions and COVID-19, while regularly teaching hands-on programming and data workshops for researchers. Combining a PhD in Computational Biology with top honors in Computer Science, she blends rigorous algorithm development with practical scientific programming and mentorship.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computational Biology, PhD, Computational Biology at Università degli Studi di Torino
English, Italian, Greek
Github Skills (34)
stable10
tarantool10
snakemake9
cdc9
pipeline9
bioinformatics9
shell9
automation8
bash8
linux8
unix8
genetics6
gnu5
sequencing5
nextflow5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alesssia/YAMP
Apr 2017 - Apr 2021
YAMP: Yet Another Metagenomic Pipeline
Contributions:45 commits, 2 PRs, 24 pushes in 4 years
pipelinemetagenomic-pipelineyet-anotherbioinformaticssnakemake
alesssia/alesssia.github.io
Apr 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:91 pushes, 1 branch, 18 issues in 8 years
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