Luke Zappia

Bioinformatician and scientific software engineer
(he/him)

LinkedIn Github Bluesky Mastodon Scholar ORCiD Impactstory

Hi, I’m Luke 👋🏻

I am a bioinformatician and scientific software engineer working on single-cell and spatial genomics, with an interest in interoperability, reproducible pipelines and data visualisation.

I currently work as a senior data science engineer at Data Intuitive, where I lead and co-lead projects building scalable Nextflow and Python pipelines for pharmaceutical companies. I am also a core member of Open Problems in Single-Cell Analysis, where I lead the dimensionality reduction task and have helped build benchmarks for computational methods, including single-cell foundation models.

I was previously a postdoctoral researcher and lab manager in the Theis Lab at Helmholtz Munich and TUM, and completed my PhD in the Oshlack Lab in Melbourne, Australia.

Check out my posts, projects and publications to find out more about me and my work!