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Jonathan Birchall, PhD

Research Associate

Department of Radiology

Areas Of Expertise:

Git, Matlab, Data visualisation, Big data, Statistical analysis, Data collection, Data architecture, Version control, Experimental design, Data storage, Code sharing, Writing/publishing data papers, Surveys, Imaging, Textual data, Digital illustration

Contact Information

jb2455@cam.ac.uk

ORCiD:

0000-0003-3920-4038

Biography

I am currently a Research Associate in the Gallagher Group, where my goals are to develop novel screening techniques for cancer using pre-clinical hyperpolarised 13C-MRI, with an aim towards evaluation, documentation and eventual translation of these techniques into human imaging. This work is jointly funded by the University and The National Cancer Imaging Translational Accelerator (NCITA), where I am a member of the QA/QC Unit responsible for developing Standard Operating Procedures and performing data analysis on NCITA exemplar studies towards the creation of an MRI Core Lab.

I received my PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2017, researching experimental methods for improving 129Xe hyperpolarisation with an application to clinical functional lung imaging. I continued in a postdoctoral role for one year, performing QA/QC duties for the clinical Hyperpolarised Imaging Lung Facility (HILF), before moving to Wayne State University, Detroit, USA to take up a 2.5 year postdoctoral role developing pre-clinical hyperpolariser technologies for 13C, 15N and 129Xe.

I have always had a passion for statistics and communication, and as a Data Champion in the Department of Radiology, I hope that I can collaborate with my peers across a diverse range of projects, advocating for good record-keeping, analysis, dissemination and other facets of research data management.

Shawn Zamani

PhD Student

Early Cancer Institute

Department of Oncology

Areas Of Expertise:

R language, Git, SQL, Other programming languages, Data visualisation, Statistical analysis, Electronic Lab Notebooks, Data collection, Version control, Institutional repositories, General repositories, Code sharing, Writing/publishing data papers, Surveys, Geospatial data, REDCap, Social media & digital communications, Website development, Bash

Contact Information

sz384@cam.ac.uk

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ORCiD:

0000-0001-8622-5013

Alexia Cardona, PhD

Bioinformatics Training Developer

Department of Genetics

Areas Of Expertise:

R language, Git, Data visualisation, Big data, Data analysis, Bioinformatics, Workshop delivery, Social media and digital comms.

Contact Information

alexia.cardona@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk

ORCiD:

0000-0002-7877-5565

Biography

Before joining the University of Cambridge I was a Software Engineer. Since then I have been working on different research projects across different Departments at the University investigating the epigenetics of obesity, diabetes and related metabolic disorders and human evolutionary genetics. I am currently the Bioinformatics Training Developer for the Bioinformatics Training Programme at the University.

Ali Abbas, PhD

Senior Data Scientist, MRC Epidemiology Unit

Areas Of Expertise:

Python, R language, Git, SQL, C/C++/C# language, Java, Data visualisation, Big data, Data mining, Machine learning, Statistical analysis, Version control, Data sharing, Code sharing, Open data, FAIR Data, Writing/publishing data papers, Geospatial data

Contact Information

aa797@cam.ac.uk

Biography

Ali is Senior Data Scientist and public-health/transport modeller in the Public Health Modelling (PHM) group at the MRC-Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge. He is interested in active travel, specifically cycling research.

Coming from a Computer Science background, with a focus on modelling in his PhD, for over a decade, he has been doing data-driven research and development. This includes Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA), Statistical Modelling (or Machine Learning), Interactive Visualization, all with a focus on collaborative, transparent and reproducible research. In addition, he leads in project management and managing, training, guiding, and teaching of junior staff in his Unit. His work can be seen on GitHub at https://github.com/usr110.

Andrew Thwaites, PhD

Visiting Scientist

Department of Psychology

Areas Of Expertise:

Bioinformatics, Data sharing, Big data, Coding, Python, R language, SQL, Git, Matlab, Java, Data visualisation, Machine learning, Statistical analysis, Data Management Plans, Data policies, Data archiving, Code sharing, Open data, Imaging, Illustration, Website development

Contact Information

acgt2@cam.ac.uk

ORCiD:

0000-0002-6237-7140

Biography

Additional areas of expertise:

Neuroscience data

Arian Jamasb

PhD student

Department of Biochemistry

Department of Computer Science and Technology

Areas Of Expertise:

Python, R language, Git, Data visualisation, Big data, Machine learning, Statistical analysis, Version control, Discipline-specific repositories, Data sharing, Code sharing, Open data, Cheminformatics, Bioinformatics

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Biography

My research focuses on the applications of machine learning to problems in structural biology and drug discovery.

Borja Blanco, PhD

Research Associate

Department of Psychology

Areas Of Expertise:

Python, R language, Git, Matlab, Big data, Statistical analysis, Code sharing, Imaging, Workshop delivery

Contact Information

bb579@cam.ac.uk

@borja_blanco4

ORCiD:

0000-0001-5533-2086

Biography

I received my PhD in cognitive neuroscience from Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL). I am currently a Research Associate at the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. My interests include data processing and analysis methods for neuroimaging techniques employed in developmental research (fNIRS & EEG). I am interested in the application of these methods for investigating functional connectivity and cognitive processes such as social cognition and language acquisition in infant populations.

Cameron Lloyd

Research Assistant

Areas Of Expertise:

Python, R language, Git, Java, Data visualisation, Version control, FAIR Data, Imaging

Contact Information

cbl27@cam.ac.uk

Dominik Krzeminski, PhD

Research Associate

Contact Information

dkk33@cam.ac.uk

@dokatox

ORCiD:

0000-0003-4568-0583

Biography

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.

Elizabeth Smith

Associate Editor for Digital Development, Cambridge University Library

Areas Of Expertise:

Git, Version control, Institutional repositories, Discipline-specific repositories, Data sharing, Data archiving, Textual data

Contact Information

els47@cam.ac.uk

@ElizabethLSmit1

ORCiD:

0000-0002-2711-2390

Biography

Elizabeth has an MPhil in HPS from Cambridge and has worked for the Newton Project Canada. She has worked for the Darwin Correspondence Project for more than fifteen years, and assisted in the conversion of the Project's core files to TEI XML, and is now developing and implementing strategies to ensure the quality, robustness, interoperability, and long-term viability of our electronic data. She is a co-founder of Epsilon, a nineteenth century science letters platform and has been a guest lecturer at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School.

Jonathan Birchall, PhD

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Shawn Zamani

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Ali Abbas, PhD

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Arian Jamasb

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Borja Blanco, PhD

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Dominik Krzeminski, PhD

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Elizabeth Smith

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