Joy Buongiorno
Senior Editor at Springer Nature Group
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoy Buongiorno is a senior editor of biogeochemistry at Nature Communications with a decade of experience bridging environmental microbiology research and science communication. Trained as an environmental geomicrobiologist (PhD, Microbiology; MS Geoscience), she has led and published on metagenomic, metatranscriptomic, and metabolomic studies of Arctic permafrost, fjord sediments, and the deep biosphere, and has applied data-driven discovery, network science, and visualization to reveal emergent patterns in large environmental datasets. She previously held faculty and postdoc roles, including an ENIGMA/NASA Astrobiology project, and now handles global, cross-functional editorial work that shapes the presentation and impact of cutting-edge geobiology. A committed mentor and community organizer, she founded the Knoxville chapter of 500 Women Scientists and develops science programming for East TN Freedom Schools, reflecting a passion for keeping science open and accessible. Her profile and project portfolio are publicly available at jbuongio.github.io, underscoring an uncommon blend of hands-on field and computational expertise with editorial leadership.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Biology at Tennessee Technological UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Microbiology General, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Microbiology General at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Github Skills (24)
markdown10
nmf10
jekyll10
population-genetics10
comparative-genomics10
cytoscapejs9
github-pages9
bioinformatics9
gitpod9
metagenomics9
python8
science8
visualization8
javascript8
genes7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JBuongio/jbuongio.github.io
Jun 2020 - Jun 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 631 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
JBuongio/Woes
Jun 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:3 pushes in 7 months
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