Nikos Kyrpides

Nikos Kyrpides
Νίκος X. Κυρπίδης
BornNovember 11, 1963
Serres, Greece
Alma materAristotle University of Thessaloniki
Known forMicrobial genomics, metagenomics, Microbiome, Virome, microbiome data science
Scientific career
FieldsBioinformatics, microbiology, virology, computational biology, data science
InstitutionsJoint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Academic advisorsCarl Woese, Ross Overbeek
Websitehttps://jgi.doe.gov/our-science/scientists-jgi/nikos-kyrpides/

Nikos Kyrpides (Greek: Νίκος Κυρπίδης) is a Greek-American bioscientist who has worked on the origins of life, information processing, bioinformatics, microbiology, metagenomics and microbiome data science. He is a senior staff scientist at the Berkeley National Laboratory, head of the Prokaryote Super Program and leads the Microbiome Data Science program at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute.