Francesco Favero
Assistant Professor at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolFrancesco Favero is an Assistant Professor and computational biologist with 15 years of experience developing tools and analyses for cancer genomics, specializing in somatic copy number and structural variant analysis from next-generation sequencing. His research focuses on tumor heterogeneity, clonal reconstruction and tumor evolution, and he combines this domain expertise with hands-on software engineering in R, Python, JavaScript, Ruby and C++. Francesco is the lead author of Sequenza and developer of bio_pype, practical open-source pipelines that reflect his emphasis on reproducible, production-ready bioinformatics. Based in Copenhagen, he bridges academic research and clinical collaborations at the University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet, translating methods into tools used by the cancer genomics community. An early background in chemistry and diverse roles from industry to academic postdocs gives him a rare mix of wet-lab context and deep computational rigor.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High school diploma, Chemistry, High school diploma, Chemistry at ITIS Q.Sella BiellaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatica, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatica at Danmarks Tekniske UniversitetMSc, Bioinformatics, MSc, Bioinformatics at Università degli Studi di TorinoMaîtrise, Chemistry, Maîtrise, Chemistry at Université de Metz
English, French, Italian
Github Skills (34)
home-assistant-integration8
gate7
3d-printer7
makers7
zebra6
3d-printing6
cnc-controller5
gcode4
home-assistant4
cnc4
python4
hpc-applications3
quantitative3
data-driven3
jupyter3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ffavero/mytinyrig
Feb 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:40 commits, 13 pushes in 2 months
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