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 (23)
python10
sequencing10
profiling10
metagenomics10
bioconductor9
bacteria8
ncbi8
biodiversity7
microbiome7
cli6
bioinformatics6
build-automation6
taxonomy6
workflow-management5
build-system5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SegataLab/pyphlan
Jul 2012 - Oct 2015
Contributions:98 commits in 3 years 3 months
SegataLab/repophlan
Jun 2013 - May 2017
Contributions:27 commits in 3 years 11 months
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