Summary
Deisy Gysi is a Professor and bioinformatics-focused statistician with a PhD from Universität Leipzig and over a decade of experience bridging biotechnology, precision medicine, network science, and machine learning. She has held research and applied roles at institutions including Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and major Brazilian medical centers, bringing clinical-scale bioinformatics into translational research. Currently based in Paraná, Brazil, she combines academic leadership at Universidade Federal do Paraná with active research training at Harvard, reflecting a rare mix of local impact and international collaboration. Her background in both hands-on bioinformatics analysis and advanced statistical modelling enables rigorous, reproducible approaches to patient-stratified research. Colleagues value her ability to translate complex network and omics analyses into clinically relevant insights while mentoring the next generation of computational biologists.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Research Doctorate, Research Doctorate at Universität Leipzig
Postgraduate Degree, Postgraduate Degree at Northeastern University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Universidade Federal do Paraná
Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná
Portuguese, English, German, Spanish