Adolf is an Msc Bioinformatics Student at Pwani University
and a research fellow at
Kemri-wellcome Trust Program, Passionate about
developing efficient and scalable pipelines for pathogen genomics.
Abdoallah Sharaf
Nextflow Ambassador
Abdoallah is a senior bioinformatician at SequAna - Sequencing Analysis Core Facility
University of Konstanz, Germany
, Passionate about developing efficient and scalable pipelines to tackle complex bioinformatics challenges.
Agyekum Richard
Nextflow Ambassador
Richard is a Senior Medical Laboratory Scientist who has developed keen interest in Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology. Richard currently mentors interns at HackBio.
Andre is a Bioinformatician Scientist with solid expertise in cancer biology, tumor immunology, and machine
learning applications. He has worked in multiple institutions, including the prestigious MD Anderson Cancer
Center.
André M. Ribeiro-dos-Santos
André is a Bioinformatician with expertise in gene regulation, population genetics, and machine learning.
Currently working as visiting professor in Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA, Belem - PA, BR).
Antoine Buetti-Dinh
Antoine is a bioinformatician with experience spanning human genetics, cancer biology, and microbial ecology. He
loves tackling biological questions through math and computational modeling.
Arthur Gymer
Arthur is a bioinformatics developer with experience developing high-throughput pipelines for long read cancer
data. He is also an active nf-core member.
Ashley Dederich
Ashley is a Scientific Consultant at the CHPC. She has
developed image analysis and genomic assembly pipelines and now uses her expertise to consult researchers on
their scientific computing requirements.
Bulut Hamali
Bulut Hamali is a Bioinformatician at the UC Cincinnati, studying HER2-positive breast cancer mechanisms. He holds a PhD from the Medical University of Vienna.
Charalampos (Harris) Lazaris
Charalampos is a Senior Data Scientist in Oncology at Novartis Biomedical Research in Cambridge, MA. He earned
his PhD from NYU. He specializes in gene dysregulation in cancer and how to
exploit it therapeutically.
Cris is a bioinformatics scientist and Ph.D. candidate at Flomics Biotech S.L. They develop Nextflow RNA-Seq analysis pipelines to advance the field of early cancer diagnostics.
Daniel Lundin
Davi Marcon
Edmund Miller
Edmund Miller is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Functional Genomics Lab at the University of Texas at Dallas. He's a maintainer
in the nf-core project involved in an eclectic group of nf-core projects.
Edoardo Giacopuzzi
Edoardo is a Senior Bioinformatician at
Human Technopole research institute in Milan, Italy.
He works in population genetics using Nextflow to bring order to genomic data.
Edwin Simjaya
Edwin Simjaya is the Head of AI & Software Center at
Kalbe Farma. His focus is on AI-augmented nutrigenomics
using LLMs and is the driving force behind projects at
Kalbe Digital University.
Evangelos Karatzas
Evangelos is a Research Fellow in EMBL-EBI. He is currently
developing Nextflow/nf-core pipelines to generate and annotate metagenomics derived protein families.
Fadinda Shafira
Fadinda is an AI Engineer in Bioinformatics at
Kalbe Farma. She is part of Kalbe Digital Lab, focusing on
digital biology. She promotes bioinformatics by developing courses for Kalbe Digital University.
Felipe Almeida
Felipe is a bioinformatician at ZS. He is involved in projects related to pipelines, promoting and facilitating the use of Nextflow with guidance
and trainings, when fit. Also an active nf-core member.
Firas Zemzem
Firas is PhD student at the laboratory of Cytogenetics, Molecular Genetics, and Reproductive Biology at CHU
Farhat Hached Sousse, focuses on unraveling the genetic mechanisms responsible for genetic disorders.
Florian Wünnemann
Florian is a Bioinformatics Engineer at Seqera, living in
Montreal, with experience in single-cell and spatial omics technologies. He is a developer for nf-core/molkart
and in the nf-core maintainers team.
Florian Heyl
Florian Heyl is a Bioinformatician at DKFZ, Germany. He is bridging between nf-core, GHGA, Galaxy, and the
single cell community. He holds a PhD in Bioinformatics from Freiburg University, Germany.
Francisco Martin Garcia is a Bioinformatician at Garrahan Paediatric Hospital, working on genomic variants, structural bioinformatics, and multi-omics approaches. He promotes the adoption
of Nextflow in clinical and research settings.
Franz AKE
Franz AKE is a Bioinformatician specializing in single-cell transcriptomics. He completed his PhD in
Bioinformatics at
IDIBELL Institute. He advocates for
workflow automation and the integration of Nextflow in omics studies.
Franziska Bonath
Fran got her PhD in Developmental Biology at the University of Manchester, then moved to Stockholm where she
eventually landed at the NGI, one of the founding institutions of nf-core. She is a core team member of nf-core.
Friederike Hanssen
Georgie Samaha
Georgie leads the bioinformatics group at the Sydney Informatics Hub, University of Sydney. She is working toward making bioinformatics more accessible by developing public
digital infrastructure with the Australian BioCommons.
Gisela Pattarone
Gisela is a Bioinformatician at CNEA, where she designs
and executes a meta-analysis project focused on gene expression profiles to identify diagnostic and therapeutic
biomarkers in pediatric gliomas.
Hemanoel is Bioinformatics Engineer at Gen-t, where he
develops Nextflow pipelines to analyze human genetics data, enhancing Precision Medicine efforts in Brazil.
Houcemeddine Othman
Houcemeddine Othman is an Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics from Tunisia, working on the development of
workflows for clinical genomics.
Hyun-Hwan Jeong
Hyun-Hwan Jeong is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. He is also an open-source
contributor to multiple projects, including
CB2 and
AI-MARRVEL.
Ira Iosub
Jacques Dainat
Currently Bioinformatician at IRD and part of the
i-Trop platform, Jacques enjoys simplifying complex
analyses through automation, minimizing technical barriers and enabling biologists to make the most of the power
of bioinformatics.
James Fellows Yates
James has a PhD in Bioinformatics from FSU Jena and MPI-EVA. He is currently a PostDoc at Leibniz-HKI,
working in metagenomics with a specialism in ancient DNA. He is also a core team member of nf-corecore team.
Jeferyd Yepes
Jeferyd
is currently a PhDc in bioinformatics at the University of Fribourg and SIB. He is the developer of MAGFlow/BigMAG, a Nextflow-based tool to compare metagenomics pipelines.
Jelena Pejovic Simeunovic
Jelena is an Advanced Bioinformatics Engineer at Loka, where she builds bioinformatics workflows and ensures
seamless integration and optimal performance using Nextflow. She holds a PhD in Nano Biotechnology.
Jennifer (Jen) Reeve
Jen is a Software Developer with NetValue Ltd in Hamilton, New Zealand. Her current work uses Nextflow in
biomedical contexts, but her scientific background spans microbiology, biochemistry and geochemistry.
Jose Espinosa-Carrasco
Jose is a Bioinformatician at the CBCRG group at the CRG, the
laboratory where Nextflow was born. As an early adopter of Nextflow, he is also a member of the nf-corecore team.
Janan Gawra
Dr. Janan Gawra is a postdoctoral researcher at the IDAEA-CSIC. He is part of the EPIBOOST project, studying
the epigenetic and gene expression changes in zebrafish and seabass in response to environmental pollutants.
João Vitor Cavalcante
João is a MSc student affiliated with the Dalmolin Systems Biology Group, at the Bioinformatics Multidisciplinary Environment in Natal, Brazil. His interests are in metagenomics,
neurogenetics and scientific software development.
Juan Martinez Villalobos
Juan is a Postgraduate Associate at the Augert Lab at
Yale School of Medicine
His research focuses on CRISPR screening and multi-omics integration to characterize the epigenetic landscape of
Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC).
Julia Apolonio de Amorim
Julia is a MSc student at the
Rio Grande do Norte Federal University
in Natal, Brazil. She is interested in GWAS and post-GWAS analyses, functional genomics and genetics of psychiatric
and neurodegenerative diseases.
Júlia Mir Pedrol
Júlia is a bioinformatician at the Computational Biology and Health Genomics group from the CRG. She is also an
nf-core tools developer and a member of the nf-corecore team.
Juan A. Ugalde
Juan is an assistant professor at the Center for Bioinformatics
and Integrative Biology, at Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile.
Kimberly Christine Coetzer
Kimberly is a PhD candidate in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Stellenbosch University, South
Africa. She has experience in clinical proteomics and human genetics, specifically in the field of rare
diseases.
Kristina is a Bioinformatics Scientist at the Curtin University/Centre for Crop and Disease Management. She develops
innovative algorithms and pipelines for pangenomics & structural bioinformatics, advancing crop disease
research.
Kübra Narcı
Kübra Narcı is a bioinformatician at DKFZ, Germany. She is bridging between nf-core and GHGA. She holds a PhD in
Bioinformatics from METU, Turkey.
Lara Ianov
Lara Ianov is the Co-Director of the UAB Biological Data Science Core. She directs the development of transcriptomics pipelines including the nf-core/scnanoseq pipeline.
Lili Andersson-Li
Lili Andersson-Li is a bioinformatician at KI, Sweden. She develops pipelines for metagenomics, viral typing and
viral drug resistance testing. She holds a PhD in population genetics.
Lynn Langit
Lynn is an independent cloud architect supporting bioinformatics teams world-wide. She is also part of DIMI Lab.
Louis Le Nézet
Louis is a PhD student in bioinformatics at the IGDR. His research focuses on developing and applying computational methods to study the genetics basis of the
canine hip dysplasia.
Luke has a PhD in Molecular Genetics from La Trobe University and AVR, Australia. He is
currently a Genomic Breeding Scientist and Global Strategic Science Manager at Barenbrug.
Mahesh Binzer-Panchal
Mahesh is a bioinformatician for NBIS,
SciLifeLab, the Swedish node of
Elixir. He supports research groups, performing de novo
genome assembly, or workflow development. He is also an nf-core maintainer.
Mahima Sanjay Gomladu
Mahima Sanjay Gomladu, is a Senior Bioinformatics Engineer at the Genomics Core Facility, University of Bergen, Norway. She designs modular, scalable pipelines using Nextflow to drive large-scale
sequencing analyses (WES, WGS, RNA-seq, single-cell, spatial omics). As an ELIXIR collaborator, she promotes
reproducible sciencand FAIR data principles.
Marie is a bioinformatician at the Robert Koch Institute. She mainly develops pipelines for NGS data and viroinformatics.
Martin Beracochea
Martin is the Production lead of MGnify at EMBL-EBI. He oversees the development and maintenance of web services and bioinformatics pipelines.
Mateus Falco
Mateus is a PhD student on Pharmaceutical Sciences at Unicentro, working at the facility IPEC in wetlab and bioinformatics on
Program Genomas Paraná.
Matthias De Smet
Matthias Hörtenhuber
Maxime Garcia
Maxime, bioinfomagician, develops nf-core pipelines, mainly Sarek, and is a member of the nf-corecore team.
Melak Getu
Melak Getu is a Bioinformatics Researcher at
EPHI. He focuses specifically in viral and bacterial
genome analysis, and works at the Integrated Pathogen Genomic Sequencing and Bioinformatics Facility of EPHI.
Michael Heuer
Michael Heuer (he/him/his) is a Staff Engineer at
Mammoth Biosciences. Michael contributes to several nf-core
workflows and is a member of the nf-core
safety team.
Mitali Nimkar
Muntadher Jihad
Muntadher is a Bioinformatician at CRUK CI, develops
statistical models to identify cellular crosstalk in pancreatic cancer and develops Nextflow pipelines for
scRNA-seq variant calling.
Nicholas Owen
Nick is a Principal Research Data Steward / Bioinformatician at UCL Advanced Research Computing. He has a strong background in splicing and disease, developing pipelines for NGS analysis using Nextflow.
Nico Trummer
Nico is a student research assistant at the
DaiSyBio group at TUM in Munich, Germany.
He is a member of the
nf-core maintainers team
and leads the development of several nf-core pipelines.
Nicolas Vannieuwkerke
Nicolas Vannieuwkerke is a Bioinformatician at CMGG. He
mainly develops Nextflow pipelines for in-house deployment using the nf-core standards. He also is an avid
believer in "Learning on the job" and is always eager to learn
Nicolas A. Schcolnicov
Nicolas Schcolnicov is a Bioinformatics Consultant focused on the development and maintenance of Nextflow
pipelines. He contributes to the nf-core workflows and his interests
are scientific software development and data science.
Nicolas Servant
Nicolas is the co-director of the
bioinformatics core facility of Institut Curie. His main interests are cancer biology/epigenetics/AI. Member of the nf-core community, he promotes Nextflow for good programming practices.
Nour Mahfel
Nour Mahfel is a trainee clinical scientist on the Scientist Training Programme, specialising in genetic
diagnostics at Birmingham Women's Hospital NHS.
Phil Ewels is Senior Product Manager for Open Source Software at Seqera, working on strengthening the Nextflow and nf-core communities. He holds a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Cambridge, UK. He co-founded nf-core and is a member of the
core team.
Riley is a Bioinformatician at MDIBL. He has helped develop
pipelines for his institutions in-house use and is an active member of the
nf-core community.
Sameesh Kher is a Bioinformatician at GHGA in Heidelberg. He is the developer
of the nf-core/spatialxe pipeline.
Sanzida Akhter
Sanzida is a CSE and Bioinformatics master's student and is working on developing cancer biomarkers with machine
learning algorithms.
Shiyi Yin
Shiyi Yin is a genomics scientist in the SF bay area, working in compbio using nextflow for biotech R&D.
Sebastián González Tirado
Sebastián is doing his PhD at the
Institute for Computational Biomedicine
in Heidelberg. He is interested on the democratization of bioimage analysis workflows and spatial omics.
Simon Murray
Simon Murray is a Bioinformatics Engineer at Genomics England in Research Data Products where he develops and maintains pipelines for the Research Environment.
Simon Pearce
Simon Pearce is a Principal Bioinformatician at the Cancer Research UK National Biomarker Centre, where he works on detecting and subtyping cancer using circulating cell-free DNA methylation.
Sofia Stamouli
Sombuddha Roy Bhowmick
Sombuddha Roy Bhowmick is a Bioinformatician/Computational Biologist trying to make a difference in a patient's
life, one at a time.
Geraldine is Lead Developer Advocate at Seqera. She has a bit of
history with GATK and is also the author of Genomics in the Cloud (O'Reilly, 2020).
Ken Brewer
Ambassador Program Staff
Ken is a open-source developer and advocate active within the areas of genomics and high-content imaging
microscopy. He is a Senior Developer Advocate at Seqera.
Program Alumni
Individuals who are no longer active Nextflow Ambassadors but have participated in the program in the past.
Anders Jemt
Program Alumni
Bhargava Morampalli
Program Alumni
Carson Miller
Program Alumni
Carson Miller is a Microbiology Ph.D. Candidate in Lucas Hoffman's lab at the University of Washington. He is also a maintainer
in the nf-core project involved in developing/updating pipelines related
to microbial metagenomics.
Christopher Mohr
Program Alumni
Gisela Gabernet
Program Alumni
Jasmin Frangenberg
Program Alumni
Jaykishan Solanki
Program Alumni
Jaykishan Solanki is an Bioinformatics Developer at NCGM Global working on omics data analysis and machine
learning.
Moritz E. Beber
Program Alumni
Moritz is a Senior IT Solution Architect at Novo Nordisk A/S. He holds a PhD in bioinformatics and worked in computational systems biology. He strongly supports open
knowledge and open source initiatives such as nf-core.
Natalia Coutouné
Program Alumni
Noah A. Legall
Program Alumni
Noah Legall (Ph. D.) is a Bioinformatic Scientist who uses Nextflow to make comparative genomics of zoonotic and
antimicrobial resistant bacterial pathogens seamless.
Solenne Correard is the scientific director of Wise Ancestors. She
is a molecular biologist and bioinformatician using nextflow for projects focusing on biodiversity conservation
and equity in health-care.
