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Dominik graduated from Applied Physics at the University of Warsaw, before transitioning to neuroscience. In 2021, he completed PhD at Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre. Also, the same year, he became a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow concentrated on promoting good scientific programming practices. He organizes workshops focused on testing and code reviews. Currently, Dominik works as a Research Associate in the FlyConnectome group, where he develops computational tools that support structural analysis of a fruit fly (Drosophila) nervous system.

Haifeng Niu is a research associate in the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. He received his PhD in Land Economy from the Lab of Interdisciplinary Spatial Analysis (LISA). His research interests include urban big data mining, spatial data science, geographic information visualization, and dynamic simulation.

Qi received her PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she developed computational methods to study alternative splicing and the evolution of HIV. Later she joined the UCLA Division of Dermatology to help identify the resistance mechanisms of targeted cancer therapies using computational tools. 
    
In 2011 she was awarded the Humboldt Research Fellowship to work in the Division of Theoretical Bioinformatics, and later the Division of Applied Bioinformatics, at the German Cancer Research Centre. There she worked on diverse bioinformatics projects with NGS data, such as studying genome-wide epigenetic regulation of cell differentiation, developing sequencing protocols and detecting somatic mutations from whole-genome sequencing data, as well as data integration and predictive modelling. 
    
Currently, she provides bioinformatics training and support to PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in the lab of Professor Beverley Glover.

My research involves developing computational methods to explore the chemical biology of the genome and investigating proteins catalysing chemical modifications in DNA.

Additional areas of expertise:

Computational biology/chemistry.