Nextflow Ambassadors

Abhinav Sharma

Adam Talbot

Alex Peltzer

Alex Valcourt Caron

Alex Valcourt Caron is a PhD Candidate at the Sherbrooke Connectivity Imaging Laboratory. He develops nextflow components for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and is co-leading the Neuroimaging Special Interest Group.


Amofa Justice Ohene

Justice is a Bioinformatician and a ML/AI engineer at the Noguchi Memorial Institute For Medical Research. He is currently on the PANGenS Project.


Anabella Trigila

Ashley Dederich

Ashley is a Scientific Consultant at the CHPC. She has developed image analysis and genomic assembly pipelines and now uses her expertise to consult researchers on their scientific computing requirements.


Charalampos (Harris) Lazaris

Charalampos is a Senior Data Scientist in Oncology at Novartis Biomedical Research in Cambridge, MA. He earned his PhD from NYU. He specializes in gene dysregulation in cancer and how to exploit it therapeutically.


Cris Tuñi

Daniel Lundin




Davi Marcon

Edmund Miller

Edmund Miller is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Functional Genomics Lab at the University of Texas at Dallas. He's a maintainer in the nf-core project involved in an eclectic group of nf-core projects.


Edwin Simjaya

Edwin Simjaya is the Head of AI & Software Center at Kalbe Farma. His focus is on AI-augmented nutrigenomics using LLMs and is the driving force behind projects at Kalbe Digital University.


Fadinda Shafira

Fadinda is an AI Engineer in Bioinformatics at Kalbe Farma. She is part of Kalbe Digital Lab, focusing on digital biology. She promotes bioinformatics by developing courses for Kalbe Digital University.


Felipe Almeida

Felipe is a bioinformatician at ZS. He is involved in projects related to pipelines, promoting and facilitating the use of Nextflow with guidance and trainings, when fit. Also an active nf-core member.


Firas Zemzem

Firas is PhD student at the laboratory of Cytogenetics, Molecular Genetics, and Reproductive Biology at CHU Farhat Hached Sousse, focuses on unraveling the genetic mechanisms responsible for genetic disorders.


Florian Wünnemann

Florian is a Bioinformatics Engineer at Seqera, living in Montreal, with experience in single-cell and spatial omics technologies. He is a developer for nf-core/molkart and in the nf-core maintainers team.


Francesco Lescai

Francesco Lescai leads the Computational Genomics Lab at the University of Pavia. He teaches bioinformatics and he's a developer of nf-core pipelines.


Franziska Bonath

Fran got her PhD in Developmental Biology at the University of Manchester, then moved to Stockholm where she eventually landed at the NGI, one of the founding institutions of nf-core. She is a core team member of nf-core.


Friederike Hanssen

Georgie Samaha

Georgie leads the bioinformatics group at the Sydney Informatics Hub, University of Sydney. She is working toward making bioinformatics more accessible by developing public digital infrastructure with the Australian BioCommons.


Graeme Grimes

Graeme is a Bioinformatician at the Institute of Genetics & Cancer at the Univeristy of Edinburgh in Scotland, he is also the lesson maintainer of the Carpentries Introduction to Bioinformatics workflows with Nextflow and nf-core.


Hemanoel Passarelli

Hemanoel is Bioinformatics Engineer at Gen-t, where he develops Nextflow pipelines to analyze human genetics data, enhancing Precision Medicine efforts in Brazil.


James Fellows Yates

James has a PhD in Bioinformatics from FSU Jena and MPI-EVA. He is currently a PostDoc at Leibniz-HKI, working in metagenomics with a specialism in ancient DNA. He is also a core team member of nf-core core team.


Jaykishan Solanki

Jaykishan Solanki is an Bioinformatics Developer at NCGM Global working on omics data analysis and machine learning.


Jose Espinosa-Carrasco

Jose is a Bioinformatician at the CBCRG group at the CRG, the laboratory where Nextflow was born. As an early adopter of Nextflow, he is also a member of the nf-core core team.


Janan Gawra

Dr. Janan Gawra is a postdoctoral researcher at the IDAEA-CSIC. He is part of the EPIBOOST project, studying the epigenetic and gene expression changes in zebrafish and seabass in response to environmental pollutants.


João Vitor Cavalcante

João is a MSc student affiliated with the Dalmolin Systems Biology Group, at the Bioinformatics Multidisciplinary Environment in Natal, Brazil. His interests are in metagenomics, neurogenetics and scientific software development.


Júlia Mir Pedrol

Júlia is a bioinformatician at the Computational Biology and Health Genomics group from the CRG. She is also an nf-core tools developer and a member of the nf-core core team.


Juan A. Ugalde

Juan is an assistant professor at the Center for Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology, at Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile.


Ken Brewer

Ken is a open-source developer and advocate active within the areas of genomics and high-content imaging microscopy. He is a Sr. Software Engineer on the Bioinformatics Platform team at GeneDx.


Krešimir Beštak

Krešimir is a PhD student at the Institute for Computational Biomedicine, University Hospital Heidelberg. He's the developer of nf-core/molkart, and is working on spatial omics nf-core pipelines.


Kübra Narcı

Kübra Narcı is a bioinformatician at DKFZ, Germany. She is bridging between nf-core and GHGA. She holds a PhD in Bioinformatics from METU, Turkey.


Lynn Langit

Lynn is an independent cloud architect supporting bioinformatics teams world-wide. She is also part of DIMI Lab.


Luca Cozzuto

Luke Pembleton

Luke has a PhD in Molecular Genetics from La Trobe University and AVR, Australia. He is currently a Genomic Breeding Scientist and Global Strategic Science Manager at Barenbrug.


Mahesh Binzer-Panchal

Mahesh is a bioinformatician for NBIS, SciLifeLab, the Swedish node of Elixir. He supports research groups, performing de novo genome assembly, or workflow development. He is also an nf-core maintainer.


Marie Lataretu

Marie is a bioinformatician at the Robert Koch Institute. She mainly develops pipelines for NGS data and viroinformatics.


Mateus Falco

Mateus is a PhD student on Pharmaceutical Sciences at Unicentro, working at the facility IPEC in wetlab and bioinformatics on Program Genomas Paraná.


Matthias De Smet

Matthias Hörtenhuber

Maxime Garcia

Maxime, bioinfomagician, develops nf-core pipelines, mainly Sarek, and is a member of the nf-core core team.


Michael Heuer

Michael Heuer (he/him/his) is a Staff Engineer at Mammoth Biosciences. Michael contributes to several nf-core workflows and is a member of the nf-core safety team.


Moritz E. Beber

Moritz is a Senior IT Solution Architect at Novo Nordisk A/S. He holds a PhD in bioinformatics and worked in computational systems biology. He strongly supports open knowledge and open source initiatives such as nf-core.


Muntadher Jihad

Muntadher is a Bioinformatician at CRUK CI, develops statistical models to identify cellular crosstalk in pancreatic cancer and develops Nextflow pipelines for scRNA-seq variant calling.


Natalia Coutouné

Nicolas Vannieuwkerke

Nicolas Vannieuwkerke is a Bioinformatician at CMGG. He mainly develops Nextflow pipelines for in-house deployment using the nf-core standards. He also is an avid believer in "Learning on the job" and is always eager to learn


Noah A. Legall

Noah Legall (Ph. D.) is a Bioinformatic Scientist who uses Nextflow to make comparative genomics of zoonotic and antimicrobial resistant bacterial pathogens seamless.


Nicolas A. Schcolnicov

Nicolas Schcolnicov is a Bioinformatics Consultant focused on the development and maintenance of Nextflow pipelines. He contributes to the nf-core workflows and his interests are scientific software development and data science.


Nicolas Servant

Nicolas is the co-director of the bioinformatics core facility of Institut Curie. His main interests are cancer biology/epigenetics/AI. Member of the nf-core community, he promotes Nextflow for good programming practices.


Phil Ewels

Phil Ewels is Senior Product Manager for Open Source Software at Seqera, working on strengthening the Nextflow and nf-core communities. He holds a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Cambridge, UK. He co-founded nf-core and is a member of the core team.


Pritam Kumar Panda

Pritam is a bioinformatician in the Omics IT and Data Management Core Facility (ODCF) Unit at DKFZ, Heidelberg, developing bioinformatics pipelines for clinical settings. He has a Ph.D. in Physics from Uppsala University.


Priyanka Surana

Ramiro Barrantes Reynolds

Bioinformatician/statistician/data scientist for the Genomics/Data Science Core and the Infectious Disease Center at the University of Vermont, USA. Love Nextflow!!


Ramprasad Neethiraj

Ram is a bioinformatician in the Clinical Genomics Unit at SciLifeLab, Stockholm, developing diagnostic pipelines for clinical settings. He has a Ph.D. in Population Genetics from Stockholm University.


Raquel Manzano

Raquel is a senior bioinformatician and final year PhD student at CRUK Cambridge Institute. She is also a trainer at the University of Cambridge Bioinformatics Training Unit. For her PhD she developed #rnadnavar.


Riley Grindle

Riley is a Bioinformatician at MDIBL. He has helped develop pipelines for his institutions in-house use and is an active member of the nf-core community.


Robert Petit

Robert is a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at the Wyoming Public Health Laboratory. He's the developer of Bactopia, a regular contributor to nf-core, and a member of the Bioconda Core team.


Saba Nafees

Sateesh Peri

Simon Murray

Simon Murray is a Bioinformatics Engineer at Genomics England in Research Data Products where he develops and maintains pipelines for the Research Environment.


Simon Pearce

Simon Pearce is a Principal Bioinformatician at the Cancer Research UK National Biomarker Centre, where he works on detecting and subtyping cancer using circulating cell-free DNA methylation.


Sofia Stamouli

Solenne Correard

Solenne Correard is the scientific director of Wise Ancestors. She is a molecular biologist and bioinformatician using nextflow for projects focusing on biodiversity conservation and equity in health-care.


Zohaib Anwar

Zohaib is a Senior Postdoc Researcher at the Center for Infectious Disease Genomics and One Health. He's the developer of VIRUS-MVP, powered by a genomics workflow developed in Nextflow with nf-core modules.


Ambassador Program Staff

Marcel Ribeiro-Dantas

Marcel holds a PhD in Bioinformatics from Sorbonne Université. He is currently a Developer Advocate at Seqera and a member in the nf-core core team.


Geraldine Van der Auwera

Geraldine is Lead Developer Advocate at Seqera. She has a bit of history with GATK and is also the author of Genomics in the Cloud (O'Reilly, 2020).


Chris Hakkaart

Chris Hakkaart is a Developer Advocate at Seqera, working on strengthening the Nextflow and nf-core communities. He holds a PhD in Genetics from the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is also a member in the nf-core core team.


Program Alumni

Individuals who are no longer active Nextflow Ambassadors but have participated in the program in the past.

Anders Jemt

Bhargava Morampalli

Christopher Mohr

Gisela Gabernet

Jasmin Frangenberg