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Jonathan Birchall, PhD

Research Associate

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

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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.

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

Dominik Krzeminski, PhD

Research Associate

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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.

Meng Liu

PhD student

Faculty of Education

Areas Of Expertise:

R language, Data visualisation, Statistical analysis, Data collection, Version control, Discipline-specific repositories, Code sharing, Open data, Surveys, Textual data, Workshop delivery, Social media & digital communications

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I'm a PhD candidate in the Second Language Education Group at the Faculty of Education. My research lies at the intersection of applied linguistics and educational psychology. I am interested in open research, particularly in exploring a more inclusive model of open research that takes into account paradigm differences in the social sciences. I have received specialised training in a variety of topics such as Structural Equation Modelling, Bayesian statistics and mixed methods research. I am also currently a Methods Fellow at Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Shamith Samarajiwa, PhD

Group Leader

MRC Cancer Unit

Areas Of Expertise:

File sharing systems, Big data, Discipline-specific repositories, Repositories (general), Data sharing policies, Sensitive data, Code sharing, Data analysis, Bioinformatics, Data science, Coding, Python, R language, Git, SQL, C/C++/C# language, Data visualisation, Data mining, Machine learning, Statistical analysis, Data Management Plans, Electronic Lab Notebooks, Data collection, Database design, Experimental design, Data storage, Data sharing, Open data, Version control, Textual data, Workshop delivery, Website development

Contact Information

ss861@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk

@shamith

ORCiD:

0000-0003-1046-0601

Biography

Shamith is a Group Leader at the MRC Cancer Unit. His lab develops and applies Genomics, Computational Biology, Data Science and AI approaches to understand processes leading to cancer formation and to develop cancer early detection methods.

url: https://samarajiwa-lab.org/

Xinyi Wen

PhD student

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Areas Of Expertise:

Data Management Plans, Data collection, Database design, Data architecture, Version control, Data storage, Open data, FAIR Data, Data archiving, Data preservation, Writing/publishing data papers, Textual data, Audiovisual data, Digitisation, Workshop delivery, Social media & digital communications, Website development

Contact Information

xw360@cam.ac.uk

@HPSWarburgian

ORCiD:

0000-0002-2147-2854

Biography

I am a historian of science, medicine and humanities. Currently I am a PhD candidate at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, working on the Wellcome-funded research project "The Doctrine of Signatures in Early Modern Medical Practice (221115/Z/20/Z)". I specialise in the history of medicine, natural history and occult sciences in early modern Europe, and the history of ideas in the long nineteenth century, particularly in the circle of art historian Aby Warburg (1866–1929). Before coming to Cambridge, I have worked as a new media art curator in Beijing.

As a historian, I am very interested in the historical aspect of Research Data Management from early modern botanical taxonomy, nineteenth-century index cards to the digital age. I seek to explore how techniques of data management shaped our perspectives, methodologies, and construction of scientific objects in the long run, and how our RDM practice in humanities today could benefit from past theories and experiences. I am the founder of the History of Science Library, a public Zotero library for the history of science and a resource hub for historical and contemporary data management in humanities. Currently I'm running RDM training sessions both in my department and virtually based at the History of Science Library, please feel free to get in touch.

Jonathan Birchall, PhD

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Dominik Krzeminski, PhD

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Elizabeth Smith

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