Nikos Kyrpides
Nikos Kyrpides | |
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| Νίκος X. Κυρπίδης | |
| Born | November 11, 1963 Serres, Greece |
| Alma mater | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
| Known for | Microbial genomics, metagenomics, Microbiome, Virome, microbiome data science |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Bioinformatics, microbiology, virology, computational biology, data science |
| Institutions | Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Academic advisors | Carl Woese, Ross Overbeek |
| Website | https://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.