Data Champions Search

Shawn Zamani

PhD Student

Early Detection Programme

MRC Cancer Unit

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

ORCiD:

Alfredo Cortell-Nicolau, PhD

Marie Curie European Research Fellow

Areas Of Expertise:

R language, SQL, Visual Basic, Data visualisation, Data mining, Statistical analysis, Database design, Open data, Geospatial data, Video editing

Contact Information

ac2320@cam.ac.uk

@cortellnicolau

ORCiD:

0000-0003-1982-6403

Biography

I am an archaeologist focused in Culture Evolution, Computational Archaeology and mathematical and spatial analysis applied to Archaeology and Prehistory. I also advocate for collaborative science, open research and scientific reproducibility, as one of the best ways to improve scientific outcomes

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.

Amy Foreman, PhD

Research Project Manager/Information Scientist

The Gurdon Institute

Areas Of Expertise:

R language, SQL, Data visualisation, Data collection, Database design, Open data, Writing/publishing data papers, Workshop delivery

Contact Information

alf45@cam.ac.uk

@amzyf

My LinkedIn Profile

Biography

Amy is a Research Project Manager and Information Scientist at the Gurdon Institute. She has experience working for an Open Access publisher and completed her PhD at the University of Exeter in 2019.

André Sartori, PhD

Python Developer (Citizen Science)

THIS Institute

Areas Of Expertise:

Apollo (Cambridge University repository), Repositories (general), Institutional repositories, FAIR Data, Licensing, Copyright, Code sharing, Data analysis, Coding, Python, R language, Git, SQL, Data visualisation, Big data, Data mining, Statistical analysis, Data collection, Database design, Data storage, Data sharing, Open data, Imaging, Textual data, Geospatial data, Video editing, Digital illustration, Digitisation, Workshop delivery, Website development

Contact Information

afs25@cam.ac.uk

@AndrSartori3

ORCiD:

0000-0003-0682-1646

Biography

André is passionate about making scientific research more open, accessible and participative. He develops and implements innovative web-based solutions that allow THIS Institute to engage with NHS staff, patients and the public.

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

My LinkedIn Profile

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

Aneeq Ur Rehman

Data Scientist

Department of Haematology

Areas Of Expertise:

Python, R language, Git, SQL, Matlab, Other programming languages, Data visualisation, Big data, Data mining, Machine learning, Statistical analysis, Data collection, Version control, Code sharing, Open data, Textual data, Geospatial data

Contact Information

aneeq.rehman@bioresource.nihr.ac.uk

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Biography

Data Scientist for HDR UK working on the Gut reaction project.

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