Daniel Segrè
Professor of Biology, Bioinformatics Program
Dr. Daniel Segrè is a Professor of Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Physics at Boston University. He is a core faculty member of the Bioinformatics Program and of the Biological Design Center, and the founding Director of the Boston University Microbiome Initiative. After a Laurea (B.Sc-M.Sc.) in Physics from the University of Trieste, Italy, with a thesis on the theory of elementary particles, Dr. Segrè obtained a Ph.D. in Life Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, studying prebiotic chemical networks and the origin of life. As a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, and later as a faculty at Boston University, Dr. Segrè has been pursuing a quantitative understanding of metabolism in individual organisms and in ecosystems.