Computational Microbial Ecology Group, HiLIFE - Helsinki Institute of Life Science, Department of Microbiology, University of Helsinki
Associate Professor of microbiology at the Helsinki Institute of Life Science (HiLIFE), University of Helsinki
His work focuses on understanding the intricate relationships between the human microbiome and health.
He received his PhD in computational biology from Aalto University (Espoo, Finland) and has since worked at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (Cambridge, MA, USA) and at the Liggins Institute of the University of Auckland (NZ) as a senior scientist.
His research group at the University of Helsinki develops and utilizes computational models, machine learning and bioinformatics to understand the dynamics of human microbial communities - predominantly the gut microbiomes - and their implications to human development, health and wellbeing.
