Flavia Flaviani is a Senior Bioinformatician at the Hub for Applied Bioinformatics at King’s College London. She joined the Hub after working as a Senior Bioinformatician at the NHS Guy’s and St Thomas’ Biomedical Research Centre, where she supported translational bioinformatics for clinical research.

She has a diverse interdisciplinary background, holding a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Cape Town, focused on microbial diversity using metagenomics, 16S and 18S approaches, and an MSc in Bioinformatics from the University of Cagliari with a focus on viral transcriptomics.

Flavia has extensive experience with a wide range of next generation sequencing technologies and the analysis of complex genomics datasets, complemented by wet lab experience across hospital, public health, and academic settings. Her work spans multiple NGS omics applications using both long and short reads, including medical and environmental microbiome analysis (16S, metagenomics, and virome), epigenetics (EWAS), RNA sequencing, and metabolomics (NMR). She has contributed to the Hospital-Onset COVID-19 Infections study as part of the COG-UK consortium.

Flavia has led and developed training courses and is a certified Data and Software Carpentry Instructor. She is actively involved in mentoring, teaching, and public engagement initiatives, including I Can Be, ResearcHers Code, and I Am Remarkable.