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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.

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

Florian Markowetz, PhD

Senior Group Leader

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute

Areas Of Expertise:

Big data, Discipline-specific repositories, Data analysis, Bioinformatics, Coding, R language, Git, Matlab, Data visualisation, Data mining, Machine learning, Statistical analysis, Experimental design, Imaging, Workshop delivery, Social media and digital communications

Contact Information

fm327@cam.ac.uk

@markowetzlab

ORCiD:

0000-0002-2784-5308

Biography

Florian Markowetz is a Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. He is a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holder and received a CRUK Future Leader in Cancer Research prize. He holds degrees in Mathematics (Dipl. math.) and Philosophy (M.A.) from the University of Heidelberg and a Dr. rer. nat. (PhD equivalent) in Computational Biology from Free University Berlin, for which he was awarded an Otto-Hahn Medal by the Max Planck Society. His group at the CRUK Cambridge Institute combines computational work on cancer evolution and image analysis of the tumour tissue with experimental work on understanding key cancer mechanisms like the estrogen receptor.

Jiayin Hong, PhD

Research Associate

Department of Biochemistry

Areas Of Expertise:

Python, R language, Git, SQL, Matlab, Data visualisation, Big data, Data mining, Machine learning, Statistical analysis, Electronic Lab Notebooks, Version control, Bioinformatics, Workshop delivery

Contact Information

jh2313@cam.ac.uk

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ORCiD:

0000-0002-2212-558X

Biography

Jiayin is a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Biochemistry. Holding a Ph.D in Integrated Life Sciences and Physics, Jiayin is passionate about unraveling intricate mechanisms in epigenetics, transcriptional regulation, and cancer biology. Her approach blends experimental techniques with computational methods.

Máté Aller

Research Associate

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Areas Of Expertise:

Python, Git, Matlab, Data visualisation, Data mining, Machine learning, Statistical analysis, Data collection, Version control, Experimental design, Data storage, Data sharing, Code sharing, Open data, Imaging

Contact Information

mate.aller@mrc-cbu.ac.uk

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My LinkedIn Profile

Biography

I am a neuroscientist studying human speech perception with the aim of advancing assistive speech (neuro)technologies and AI speech recognition systems. My background is in cognitive neuroscience and medicine.

I am an expert in human neurophysiology methods (electro- and magnetoencephalography, EEG/MEG) combined with machine learning and artificial neural network modelling (deep learning).

Since the beginning of my PhD, I’ve been passionate about reproducible and open science practices such as data and code sharing, and good coding practices including version control. In my department I am leading the adoption of the standardised Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) for storing and sharing human neurophysiology (MEG/EEG) data.

Noam Tal-Perry

Research Associate

Areas Of Expertise:

R language, Git, Matlab, Data visualisation, Statistical analysis, Experimental design, Open data

Contact Information

nt490@cam.ac.uk

NoamTalPerry

ORCiD:

0000-0003-2521-9546

Biography

I am a member of the Research on Research Culture (ARRC) project, studying various questions pertaining to research culture and how can we improve it. Prior to that, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, and I have a PhD in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Jonathan Birchall, PhD

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Andrew Thwaites, PhD

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Florian Markowetz, PhD

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Jiayin Hong, PhD

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Máté Aller

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Noam Tal-Perry

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