Location
Zürich, Switzerland
Hi! I am Marco, a
About
In a nutshell
A self-driven data scientist proficient in turning complex problems into software solutions
Committed to leverage machine learning methods to maximize data insights in the biomedical and environmental space
A Linux-savvy and fluent in R, Python, Bash, Perl, SQL
A lifelong learner with a flair for problem-solving
If I am not on the shell, likely I am in the Swiss alps
"The answer is there, blowing in the bulk"
Resume
Professional Experience
Bioinformatician
Functional Genomics Center Zürich (FGCZ), ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
- Integrated from scratch nextflow pipelines in the FGCZ cloud platform SUSHI
- Analyzed scRNA-seq data for user projects
Genomics Data Scientist
enGene Statistics, Basel, Switzerland
- Delivered 4 oncogenomics and 2 proteomics projects for research institutes
- Developed tailored bioinformatics analysis for genomics and proteomics data
- Developed 2 Shiny applications to interactively explore omics data
- Supported clients in writing scientific publications
- Communication of findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Supervised the master thesis work of a student
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Milan, Milan, Italy
- Developed novel algorithms to predict protein functions from bio-ontology data
- Packaged the source code in an R library and published it on CRAN and Bioconda repositories alongside a step-by-step tutorial
- Developed an integrated R/Perl pipeline to build machine learning-ready dataset to predict protein functions
- Taught practicals lessons in statistics, gave lectures on bioinformatics and supervised the master thesis work of a student
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
2015 - 2019University of Milan, Italy
- Area of study: Machine learning
- Thesis title: Hierarchical Ensemble Methods for Ontology-based Predictions in Computational Biology
- Award: associated paper awarded as one of the five best of 2017 (journal paper and Medium article)
M.Sc. in Molecular Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
2012 - 2015University of Milan, Italy
- Area of study: Bioinformatics
- Thesis title: Hierarchical Ensemble Methods for Biontologies Structured as Directed Acyclic Graphs
B.Sc. in Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology
2009 - 2012University of Milan, Italy
- Area of study: Computational Biology
- Thesis title: High Resolution Maps of Methylation and Acetylation of Histones in the Human Genome
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Email Address
notaromarco90 AT gmail DOT com
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