Nicola Segata

USERN Advisory Board

nationality : Italian.

Interests : I am working in the fields of human microbiome research and computational biology. The Laboratory of Computational Metagenomics I lead at CIBIO comprises 18 researchers and uses experimental meta’omic tools and novel computational approaches to study the diversity of the human microbiome and its role in human diseases and infections. Our projects bring together computer scientists, microbiologists, statisticians, and clinicians.

Current position

Associate Professor and Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Computational Metagenomics, Centre for Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Italy.

http://segatalab.cibio.unitn.it

Past research positions

Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Biostatistics department, Har- vard University, Boston, MA, USA.

Postdoctoral fellow, Laboratory of Microbial Genomics, Centre for Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Italy.

Education

2009 PhD Dissertation, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy.

Defence of the thesis “Local approaches for fast, scalable and accurate learning with kernels” under the supervision of prof. Enrico Blanzieri. Committee: prof. Marco Gori (University of Siena), prof. Chih-Jen Lin (National Taiwan University) and prof. Enrico Blanzieri (University of Trento).

2006 Master Degree in Computer Science, University of Trento, Grade 110/110 cum laude.

Discussion of the thesis “Beta-binders and π-calculus approaches for quantitative modelling of biological pathways”, under the supervision of prof. C. Priami and prof. E. Blanzieri.

2004 Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, University of Trento, Grade 110/110 cum laude.

Discussion of the thesis “Sistemi di monitoraggio video: il problema dello sfondo in presenza di variazioni globali di illuminazione”, under the supervision of prof. C. Priami and dott. S. Messelodi.

Awards

2019 Pharmabiotics 2019 Young Investigators Awards (10,000 EUR) by Institut Merieux and the Pharmabiotic Research Institute.

2019 Invited member of the “Gruppo 2003” association of the most influential Italian scientists by citation indexes.

2018 Listed as one of the 98 researchrs in Italy as Highly Cited Researcher in 2018 by Clarivate Analytics and Web of Science.

2018 H.G. Goldman Award (Co-recipient) by the SIdP for the work by [Ghensi, Manghi, ..., Segata] on the oral microbiome in peri-implantitis.

2017 Dr. Darwin award (Co-recipient) by the Italian Society for Evolutionary Biology for the paper [Asnicar et al., mSystems 2016].

2015 LEO Pharma Research Foundation Gold Award 2015 (1M DKK, 134k EUR) awarded by LEO Pharma in association with the European Society for Dermatology. The award is “given to talented and committed young researchers in recognition of their exceptional contribution to science”.

2012 Travel fellowship awarded by ISCB with grant funds obtained from the NSF-National Science Foundation Bio-Directorate.

2012 IHMC-2012 travel award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

2011 PQG travel fellowship award from the Program in Quantitative Genomics at the Harvard School of Public Health.

2011 Travel fellowship award from the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) funded by DOE-Department of Energy Office of Science, NSF-National Science Foundation Bio-Directorate, and NIH NIMGS-National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

2009 Best Paper Award at the 6th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining, for the paper: Nicola Segata, Enrico Blanzieri: “Fast local support vector machines for large datasets”.

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