Short Bio
Cinzia Pizzi is associate professor at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua. Her research spans string algorithms, data strucures, sequence analysis, mainly with application to genomics and metagenomics analysis.
She has published 60+ scientific papers in international journals and conferences.
She was the winner of the Award "Avere Trent'anni" for young researchers @UniPd, and nominated "Outstanding young researcher" of the Dept of Information Engineering in 2008.
She is a member of the Executive Board of the Master of II level "Analysis of Omics Data" since 2021 and Member of the Teaching Commission of the Bachelor and Master Degree in Computer Engineering since 2020
She was PC-chair (with Layla Oesper) of RECOMB-Seq 2021 and editor of the related special issue on iScience, and editor of the research topic: "From one genome to many genomes: the evolution of computational approaches for pangenomics and metagenomics analysis" on Frontiers in Bioinformatics.
Latest appointments:
- Invited speaker at European Girls Olympiads in Informaticas closing cerimony - EGOI2026
- Member of the PC of Algorithms in Bioinformatics Conference - WABI2026
- Member of the PC of Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics - CIBB2026
- Member of the PC of Bioinformatics Italian Society annual meeting - BITS2026
- Member of the PC of EPIA International Conference in Artificial Intelligence 2026 .
Main projects and resources (more here)
- Cinzia Pizzi was the PI of the Project of National Interest (PRIN) "Compositional approaches for the characterization and mining of omics data
- She is currently involved in the EuAqua and CONVECS projects
- She was previously involved in past european projects (GENOMICS and HuBI), national (PRIN, FIRB) and local projects (CARIPARO, ATENEO, SID)
Education & Academic Positions
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2019 - presentAssociate Professor @ University of Padova, ItalyDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy.
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2011 - 2018Assistant Professor @ University of Padova, ItalyDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy.
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2010Visiting Researcher @ Reyni Institue of Mathematics, HungaryReyni Instute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Hungary.
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2008-2010Senior Post-Doc Researcher @ University of Padova, ItalyDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy.
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2009Visiting Researcher @ GeorgiaTech, USACollege of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology - GeorgiaTech, Atlanta, USA.
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2007 - 2008Post-Doc Researcher, supervisor Prof.M.-F. SagotLaboratoire de biometrie et biologie evolutive, Universite Lyon I, Lyon, France .
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2005 - 2007Post-Doc Researcher, supervisor Prof.E.UkkonenDepartment of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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2005Marie-Curie Early-Stage Fellow @ EBI - European Bioinformatics Institute, UkComputational Genomic Group (PI Dr. Christos Ouzounis), European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK.
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2001 - 2005Ph.D., supervisor Prof. A.ApostolicoPh.D. in Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.
Title of the thesis: Compositional approaches to the discovery of patterns in biosequences -
2004Visiting Researcher @ Purdue University, USADepartment of Computer Science, Purdue University, Indiana, USA.
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2002Research Contract @ Dept. of Biology, Unipd, ItalyUniversity Project CPDA013487, Università di Padova, Italia
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2001Stage Post-lauream @TILAB - TelecomItalia ResearchTelecom Italia Lab (TILAB) – Torino, Italia Research group “Multimedia Lab - Internet Services and Applications
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1995 - 2000Master Degree, supervisor Prof. M.AgostiM.Sc. in Computer Science Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.
Title of the thesis: "Architecture of a Web Search Agent".