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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.

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.

Jiri Benacek

Research Assistant

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Areas Of Expertise:

Python, Matlab, Data visualisation, Big data, Machine learning, Statistical analysis, Experimental design, Sensitive data, Research data ethics, Data protection and research

Contact Information

jb2346@cam.ac.uk

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Biography

My background is neuropsychology, and later, computational neuroscience. During my studies, I developed strong skills in applied data science and machine learning, as well as fundamental knowledge of neural computation. Currently, I am based in the Cambridge Centre for Neuropsychiatric Research, where our team is working on biomarker discovery for neuropsychiatric disorders, as well as on developing algorithms for more data-informed diagnostics in mental healthcare.

Katrina (Kechun) Li

PhD Student

Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Areas Of Expertise:

Code sharing, Data analysis, Python, R language, Data visualisation, Statistical analysis, Data sharing, Open data

Contact Information

kl502@cam.ac.uk

ORCiD:

0000-0003-1611-0450

Biography

I'm currently a PhD student in phonetics, also previously trained in economics. The commonality of the two fields is that they both rely on the robust analysis of reliable empirical data to reveal patterns of the world. My current research explores speech data to shed light on the cross-linguistic prosodic system. I'm also interested in making speech data openly accessible to facilitate language preservation and phonetic research.

Luisa Fassi

PhD Student

Areas Of Expertise:

R language, Statistical analysis, Experimental design, Data sharing, Code sharing, Open data, Writing/publishing data papers

Contact Information

Luisa.Fassi@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk

@FassiLuisa

ORCiD:

0000-0002-0520-6425

Biography

I am a PhD student based at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. My research is aimed at disentangling the relationship between technology use and youth mental health. I am passionate about Open Science, and I am a junior representative of Rotterdam RIOT a science club that promotes reproducible, interpretable, open and transparent research practices. Before my PhD, I graduated in Psychology from Erasmus University Rotterdam and subsequently attended an MSc in Research Methods at the University of Oxford.

Mandy Wigdorowitz, PhD

Open Research Community Manager

Areas Of Expertise:

R language, Git, Data visualisation, Statistical analysis, Data Management Plans, Data collection, Experimental design, Copyright, Sensitive data, Research data ethics, Data protection and research, Data policies, Data storage, Institutional repositories, Discipline-specific repositories, General repositories, Data sharing, Code sharing, Open data, FAIR Data, Data archiving, Data preservation, Writing/publishing data papers, Surveys, Audiovisual data, Workshop delivery, Social media & digital communications

Contact Information

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Biography

Mandy Wigdorowitz is Open Research Community Manager for Cambridge University Libraries. She holds a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from the University of Cambridge, St John's College, and is a registered Research Psychologist with a Masters in Social and Psychological Research from the University of the Witwatersrand. She is interested in the benefits of open research practices across all research disciplines and is building a community that promotes open research at Cambridge. Her research focuses on understanding language and interaction from linguistic, social, cognitive, and psychological perspectives. Mandy is also the Associate Editor for the Journal of Open Humanities Data, which publishes data papers in disciplines spanning the Humanities.

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.

Qi Wang, PhD

Bioinformatician

Department of Plant Sciences

Areas Of Expertise:

Big data, Data analysis, Bioinformatics, Coding, Python, R language, SQL, Git, Data visualisation, Data mining, Machine learning, Statistical analysis, Experimental design, Data storage, Discipline-specific repositories, Data sharing, Code sharing, Writing/publishing data papers, Workshop delivery

Contact Information

qw254@cam.ac.uk

ORCiD:

0000-0002-6420-1720

Biography

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.

Jonathan Birchall, PhD

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Sargon Gross-Thebing, PhD

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Florian Markowetz, PhD

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Hugo Tavares, PhD

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Jiri Benacek

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Katrina (Kechun) Li

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Luisa Fassi

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Mandy Wigdorowitz, PhD

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Noam Tal-Perry

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Qi Wang, PhD

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