Filippo Biscarini
Director Of Research at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolFilippo Biscarini is a Director of Research and seasoned Principal Investigator with 11+ years applying biostatistics, bioinformatics and machine learning to plant, animal and human genomics. He earned a PhD in Animal Breeding and Genomics from Wageningen and has led multidisciplinary teams and large international projects across Europe and North America, currently directing research at Italy’s CNR. His work spans next-generation sequencing, statistical genetics and scalable ML for heterogeneous biological data, with hands-on teaching and software tool development experience from ERC secondment to Marie-Curie fellowships. Fluent in multiple languages, he combines deep quantitative skills (including linear algebra) with practical breeding and translational-medicine applications across species. Notably, his career includes both UN/IAEA capacity-building missions and development of reproducible analysis pipelines used in collaborative, cross-border research networks.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Animal Breeding and Genomics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Animal Breeding and Genomics at Wageningen UniversityVeterinary Medicine, Animal Genetics, 106/110, Veterinary Medicine, Animal Genetics, 106/110 at University of PerugiaErasmus programme certificate of attendance, Food safety and microbiology, Erasmus programme certificate of attendance, Food safety and microbiology at University of Utrecht
English, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Italian
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Github Skills (8)
keras-tensorflow10
bioinformatics10
r-package9
deep-learning8
python8
machine-learning7
deep-neural-networks5
genomics1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
filippob/metabarcoding
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
repository for pipelines and scripts to analyse metabarcoding data
Contributions:2 PRs, 81 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
pipelinesmetabarcoding
filippob/bioinformatics_and_biostatistics_training
Dec 2021 - Sep 2024
Contributions:75 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
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