Summary
Nicholas Labello is a senior scientific computing and HPC leader with 13 years of experience architecting and running research compute environments for academia and industry, now serving as Sr. Director of Scientific Computing and HPC at Pfizer. He blends deep technical expertise in Python, high-performance computing, and computational chemistry with hands-on user support, training, and team development—having hired and mentored student and professional teams to scale services. His career spans building campus-scale HPC services, running biomedical simulation labs, and leading ML and computational sciences efforts within a major pharma R&D organization. Trained as a Ph.D. physical and computational chemist, he uniquely translates domain science into production-ready compute platforms that accelerate discovery.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Physical and Computational Chemistry, Ph.D. Physical and Computational Chemistry at University of Memphis
B.S. Chemistry, B.S. Chemistry at Southeastern Louisiana University