Nicolò Cogno
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolNicolò Cogno is a postdoctoral research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School with nine years of experience applying computational and biophysical methods to radiation-induced toxicities. He holds a PhD in Radiation Biophysics from Technische Universität Darmstadt and a summa-cum-laude MSc in Biomedical Physics, combining rigorous academic training with hands-on modeling expertise. His work spans agent-based and mechanistic modeling—most recently using BioDynaMo to simulate radiation-induced lung injury—and biophysical modeling of cardiomyocytes, giving him a strong interdisciplinary grasp of tissue-level and cellular processes. Prior roles include scientific software development on GPU visualization and business intelligence, reflecting solid engineering skills alongside domain science. Based in Boston, he brings a research-driven, code-first approach to translating mechanistic insights into predictive models for clinical radiobiology. An uncommonly practical theoretician, he pairs deep physics training with production-oriented simulation tooling.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität DarmstadtDiploma di maturità scientifica, Tecnologico, 97/100, Diploma di maturità scientifica, Tecnologico, 97/100 at Liceo ScientificoMaster of Science, Biomedical Physics, 110/110 cum laude, Master of Science, Biomedical Physics, 110/110 cum laude at Università degli Studi di Torino
Italian, English, German
Github Skills (14)
modular-design10
simulation10
neuroscience10
agent-based-modeling10
biology10
high-performance10
large-scale9
agent-based-simulation9
modular9
simulation-framework9
agent9
parallel9
benchmark4
benchmarking4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nicogno/Utilities
Jun 2019 - Dec 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
nicogno/biodynamo
Mar 2022 - Jul 2024
BioDynaMo is a high-performance and modular, agent-based simulation platform.
Contributions:6 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 4 months
agent-basedagentagent-based-modelingsimulation-frameworkmodular-design
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