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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.

Sargon Gross-Thebing, PhD

Imaging Research Associate, The Gurdon Institute

Areas Of Expertise:

Data visualisation, Big data, Statistical analysis, Data architecture, Experimental design, Research data ethics, Data storage, Data sharing, Data archiving, Data preservation, Writing/publishing data papers, Imaging, Digital illustration, Workshop delivery

Contact Information

sg2046@cam.ac.uk

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ORCiD:

0000-0002-0204-3405

Biography

As a cell and developmental biologist graduated with an interdisciplinary PhD, Sargon has sound hands-on experience in various imaging modalities such as light-sheet microscopy and the development of efficient workflows to support quantitative image processing and analysis of big imaging data.

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.

Amelie Roper, PhD

Research Facilitator

Cambridge University Library

Areas Of Expertise:

Big data, Repositories (general), Institutional repositories, Licensing, Copyright, Sensitive data, Research data ethics, Data protection and research, Data policies, Data Management Plans, Digitisation, Workshop delivery, Website development

Contact Information

alr39@cam.ac.uk

@amelieroper

ORCiD:

0000-0003-3239-2208

Biography

Amelie Roper is Research Facilitator at Cambridge University Library. Her role involves supporting grant applications for research funding for library activities, and assisting with project delivery once funding is awarded.

She studied music at King’s College London and Library and Information Studies at University College London. She also holds a PhD in book history from the University of St Andrews.

Her research interests include early modern European print culture, digital music publishing and big data.

Andrew Lim, PhD

Research Associate, ALBORADA Drug Discovery Institute

Areas Of Expertise:

R language, Data visualisation, Big data, Electronic Lab Notebooks, Other -- KNIME

Contact Information

astl3@medschl.cam.ac.uk

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ORCiD:

000-1111-2222-3333

Biography

Andrew Lim obtained his PhD from the University of Dundee, working on an antibacterial drug discovery project. He then proceeded to work as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Drug Discovery in a project funded by the Tres Cantos Open Lab Foundation, in which he represented the academic partner Oxford Clinical Research Unit based in Vietnam to work in an academic-industrial collaborative project on the development of an intracellular assay in GSK Tres Cantos research site in Spain. He later joined the ALBORADA Drug Discovery Institute in 2020 as the Assay Development and Screening Scientist working on neurodegenerative diseases.

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.

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.

Hugo Tavares, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Department of Genetics

Bioinformatics Training Facility

Areas Of Expertise:

Bioinformatics, Coding, Python, R language, Git, Data analysis, Data visualisation, Big data, Data mining, Machine learning, Statistical analysis, Data collection, Experimental design, Data storage, Institutional repositories, Discipline-specific repositories, Data sharing, Code sharing, Open data, Workshop delivery

Contact Information

hm533@cam.ac.uk

Biography

Additional areas of expertise:

Plant science, Quantitative genetics.

Jason Gellis, PhD

Research Associate

Department of Archaeology

Areas Of Expertise:

Python, R language, Git, Data visualisation, Big data, Machine learning, Statistical analysis, Data Management Plans, Data collection, Database design, Version control, Data storage, Discipline-specific repositories, General repositories, Data sharing, Code sharing, Open data, FAIR Data

Contact Information

jg760@cam.ac.uk

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Biography

I am a researcher and educator in paleoanthropology and biology. Currently, I am developing machine learning and AI applications for human evolutionary studies with the University of Cambridge Leverhulme Center for Human Evolutionary Studies and the Alan Turing Institute.

Jonathan Birchall, PhD

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Sargon Gross-Thebing, PhD

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Ali Abbas, PhD

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Amelie Roper, PhD

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Andrew Lim, PhD

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Andrew Thwaites, PhD

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Arian Jamasb

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Florian Markowetz, PhD

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Hugo Tavares, PhD

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Jason Gellis, PhD

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