Professor Nicola Segata

Professor Nicola Segata is a Principal Investigator at the CIBIO Department of the University of Trento (Italy) and the European Institute of Oncology in Milan (Italy). As a computational biologist, Nicola has a background in metagenomics, machine learning, microbiome research, and microbial genomics. In 2012, Nicola completed a postdoctoral experience in Curtis Huttenhower Lab at Harvard (USA) where he was involved in the NIH Human Microbiome Project. 

In 2013, Nicola founded the Laboratory of Computational Metagenomics that has been bringing together computational scientists, experimental biologists, statisticians, and clinicians to study the diversity of the human microbiome and its role in human diseases. The Laboratory research efforts are directed toward exploration of microbiomes with strain-level resolution and meta-analysis of very large sets of metagenomes with novel computational approaches.