DANIELA EVANGELISTA

Biography

Daniela Evangelista achieved a degree with honors in Computer Science at University of Naples “Federico II” and a PhD in Computational Biology at University of Campania “L. Vanvitelli”.
She took up her activity at the CNR on 2011, firstly at the Institute for Computation Applications (CNR/IAC) of Naples by working on the implementation of statistical methods for the analysis of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data. Then, in collaboration with Oncology Research Center of Mercogliano (CROM) – (Avellino), she worked on a development of an automatic decision support system for identifying the diagnosis and prognosis of oncological and chronic metabolic diseases.Afterwards, with Post-doctoral fellowships, at the Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (CNR-ICAR) of Naples, she worked on designing and developing of (web and stand-alone) software tools, as well as, databases for the collection, integration and analysis of omics (DNA-seq, RNA-seq), clinical and experimental data. Since 2022 she is a Research Scientist at the Institute of Food Science (CNR/ISA) hosted in Avellino and she deals with development and application of bioinformatics software tools for the study of food-related diseases and on their data-analysis by using Machine Learning methods.