Elena Grassi
RTDA at Università degli Studi di Torino
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
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Top SchoolElena Grassi is a computational biologist and RTDA with 17 years of experience bridging dry-lab genomics and wet-lab cancer research, currently based in Turin. She began her career on transcriptional regulation, GWAS-eQTL studies and human genome evolution, then pivoted to mixed wet-dry projects focused on modeling colorectal cancer and studying tumor evolution in preclinical systems. Her work spans building analysis pipelines, geo-referenced data tools and web services, reflecting a rare blend of bioinformatics, software development and hands-on lab collaboration. A PhD-trained researcher with top honors in molecular biotechnology and computer science, she combines deep domain expertise with pragmatic engineering—often serving as the lab’s go-to sysadmin and developer behind reproducible research workflows.
16 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Biomedical Sciences and Oncology, Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Biomedical Sciences and Oncology, Computational Biology at Università degli Studi di Torino
Github Skills (59)
package-management10
conda10
bioinformatics10
bioconda10
genome9
sequencing9
genomics9
parser8
csv8
typescript8
spark-ml7
parse7
hla7
gatk7
science7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vodkatad/AF_spectra
Sep 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 releases, 258 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
vodkatad/snaketry
Mar 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 31 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 11 months
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