Nicola Segata
Professor at IEO Istituto Europeo di Oncologia
Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy
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Top SchoolNicola Segata is a computational biologist and professor at Università di Trento with 14 years of research and leadership experience bridging bioinformatics, microbiome science, and translational oncology. As Principal Investigator at CIBIO and Group Leader at IEO, he combines academic rigor with industry-facing roles as scientific advisor and consultant for companies like Prebiomics and ZOE. His background includes postdoctoral training at Harvard Biostatistics and a Master’s in Computer Science with a bioinformatics specialization, giving him strong quantitative and software-oriented skills applied to complex biological data. He is known for translating methodological advances into practical tools and collaborations that impact both research and commercial diagnostics. Based in Trentino–Alto Adige, he sustains a mix of foundational research and applied science that often surfaces unexpected interdisciplinary connections between computation and clinical questions. Colleagues value his ability to navigate between deep computational methods and real-world biomedical problems.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
110L, Master Degree in Computer Science (bioinformatics specialization), 110L, Master Degree in Computer Science (bioinformatics specialization) at Università di TrentoLiceo Scientifico G.Galilei - Trento
Github Skills (29)
shotgun10
sequencing10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
metagenomics10
composition9
ncbi9
bioconductor9
profiling9
python8
bacteria8
microbiome8
biodiversity8
taxonomy7
cli6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SegataLab/pyphlan
Jul 2012 - Oct 2015
Contributions:98 commits in 3 years 3 months
SegataLab/lefse
Nov 2011 - Nov 2017
Contributions:29 commits in 6 years
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