Luigi Grassi
Associate Principal Scientist
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLuigi Grassi is an Associate Principal Scientist based in Cambridge with 10 years’ experience applying bioinformatics and next-generation sequencing to study blood cell differentiation using RNA-Seq and ChIP-Seq. After a PhD in Biomathematics and roles across Italian academia and the University of Cambridge, he has progressed through senior scientific informatics roles to leadership at AstraZeneca, blending wet-lab understanding with production-grade data science. He focuses on analysis optimization and scalable NGS workflows, driving reproducible pipelines that bridge discovery research and translational projects. Known for turning complex genomic assays into efficient computational solutions, he brings both deep domain expertise and practical experience in industrializing research outputs.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Full marks with honours, Master of Science (MS), Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Full marks with honours at Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II'Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at Università degli Studi di Torino
Italian, English
Github Skills (24)
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biodiversity9
bioinformatics9
rna-seq9
genomics8
classification8
pathogen8
sequence8
kraken8
transcript8
biology8
taxonomy8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
AstraZeneca/detectIS
Oct 2020 - Jul 2022
A pipeline to rapidly detect exogenous DNA integration sites using DNA or RNA paired-end sequencing data
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 15 commits in 1 year 9 months
exogenousrnaseqpipelinednasequencing-data
luigra/detectIS
Feb 2022 - Apr 2023
A pipeline to rapidly detect exogenous DNA integration sites using DNA or RNA paired-end sequencing data
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
exogenouspipelinednasequencing-databioconda
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