Summary
Chiara Vanni is a postdoctoral researcher and bioinformatics specialist with a decade of experience applying data science to marine and microbial ecosystems. Based at MARUM and trained at the Max Planck Institute, she develops computational methods to extract ecological and evolutionary insights from large-scale sequence datasets such as those from GOS, TARA and OSD projects. Her work spans algorithm development, teaching and PhD-level mentorship, and focuses on linking microbial community data to climate-change impacts and ecosystem resilience. A consistently high-achieving scientist (top marks throughout her studies), she leverages both classical environmental biology and modern computational pipelines to turn complex biological data into actionable ecological knowledge.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD candidate, Bioinformatics, PhD candidate, Bioinformatics at Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
High school diploma, 100/100 e Lode, High school diploma, 100/100 e Lode at Liceo Scientifico G. Castelnuovo, Firenze
Master of Science - MS, Environmental Biology, 110/110 e Lode, Master of Science - MS, Environmental Biology, 110/110 e Lode at Università degli Studi di Firenze
Italian, English, German