Nicola Segata#
| Membership Number: | 7247 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://segatalab.cibio.unitn.it |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1583-5794 |
| X: | @nsegata |
Present and Previous Positions
- Apr 2021 - present Full Professor, Department CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy
- Nov 2012 - present Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Computational Metagenomics, Department CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy
- Jan 2020 - present Visiting Professor, Department of Twin Research, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King's College London (KLC). London, United Kingdom
- Feb 2020 - present Investigator and Group Leader, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
- 2018 - 2021 Associate Professor, Department CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy
- 2013 - 2017 Assistant Professor, Centre for Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Italy
- Jul 2010 - Oct 2012 Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Biostatistics department, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
- Jan 2010 - Jun 2010 Postdoctoral fellow, Laboratory of Microbial Genomics, Centre for Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Italy
- 2006 - 2009 Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Information Engineering & Computer Science, University of Trento
Fields of Scholarship
- Bioinformatics
- Computational biology
- Metagenomics
- Microbiome research
- Machine learning
- Microbial genomics
Honours and Awards
- 2018 - present Listed as one of the “Highly Cited Researcher” by Clarivate Analytics and Web of Science since 2018
- 2023 Jürgen Manchot Research Professorship for Experimental Infection Medicine 2023 by Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, Germany
- 2023 Joint 2nd place for the Nature Awards Research Group Prize 2023 by Yakult and Nature Portfolio. The prize is given to the Nicola Segata lab
- 2023 Early Career Research Quality Award 2023 by the Rector of University of Trento. The award is given to the research who demonstrated the highest quality of research within University of Trento
- 2022 A bacterial genus named after Prof. Nicola Segata Segatella gen. nov. Segatella (Se.ga.tel’la. L. fem. dim. suff. -ella, diminutive ending; N.L. fem. n. Segatella, has been named in “honour of the contemporary Italian microbial geneticist Nicola Segata who has significantly increased our knowledge of this group of bacteria” by [Hitch et al., Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 2022]
- 2022 ERC Consolidator grant recipient (project microTOUCH, ending 2027)
- 2020 Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (“Cavaliere della Repubblica”) appointed by the President of the Italian Republic (n 12382, serie VI, decr. 27/12/2019)
- 2019 Pharmabiotics 2019 Young Investigators Award (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”.
- 2017 ERC Starting grant recipient (project metaPG, ended 2022)
- 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”
