Nicola Segata, Ph.D., is Professor and Principal Investigator at the CIBIO Department of the University of Trento (Italy) and Principal Investigator at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan (Italy). He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Trento in 2009 and he then moved to Harvard School of Public Health for his post-doctoral training where he started studying the human microbiome with computational metagenomics approaches in the Laboratory of Prof. Curtis Huttenhower. He came back to University of Trento (Department CIBIO) where he started his laboratory in 2013 which employs experimental meta'omic tools and novel computational approaches to study the diversity of the human microbiome across conditions and populations and its role in human diseases. His work is supported by the European Research Council and by several other European agencies. The projects in his laboratory bring together computer scientists, microbiologists, statisticians, and clinicians and focus on profiling microbiomes with strain-level resolution and on meta-analysing very large sets of metagenomes with novel computational tools.
