Dr Giorgia Mori
Giorgia is an experienced trainer and communicator, passionate about communicating technical topics with diverse audiences and using art to make learning more engaging. She studied Molecular Microbiology, finishing her PhD in 2014 at the University of Pavia, Italy. Giorgia’s wide-ranging career began in academia, spending 8 years studying tiny invisible worlds and delving into the mysteries of the human microbiome. She subsequently joined the battle against cancer at the European Institute of Oncology, where she quantitatively validated clinical genomics workflows to perform various bioinformatics tasks. Giorgia discovered her passion for education while supervising, teaching and training students to develop computational skills for conducting efficient and reproducible research, and became an Instructor and Trainer with The Carpentries community.
Now at BioCommons, Giorgia combines her technical expertise with her love for training, focused on the BioCloud Division's initiatives. She lives in Sydney with her husband and two kids and outside of work volunteers in diversity initiatives (RLadies) to support the representation of gender minorities in the programming community and enjoys practicing and teaching yoga.
Giorgia’s position is funded by Bioplatforms Australia and hosted by the University of Melbourne.