# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rob-knight
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:36:32.980Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rob-knight"
name: "Rob Knight"
slug: "rob-knight"
description: "Rob Knight is a computational microbiologist and professor at the University of California, San Diego. His research involves the development of laboratory and computational techniques to characterize the microbiomes of humans, animals, and the environment."
tagline: "New Zealand computational microbiologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Congreso_Futuro_2020_-_Rob_Knight_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1976"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.099476439790576
  historical:           5.681930666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/knightlabnews"
    handle:    "knightlabnews"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-knight-65a1b5aa/"
    handle:    "rob-knight-65a1b5aa"
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    title: "Rob Knight"
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    title: "روب ونايت (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rob Knight (biòleg)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1"
    title: "Найт, Роб"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Knight_(biologist)"
    title: "Rob Knight (biologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "راب نایت (زیست‌شناس)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump