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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.

Dillan Saunders

PhD Student

Department of Genetics

Areas Of Expertise:

Discipline-specific repositories, Data analysis, Data collection, Data architecture, Experimental design, Imaging, Illustration

Contact Information

ddzs2@cam.ac.uk

@DillanDZ

ORCiD:

0000-0001-5169-5488

Biography

I am a PhD student in developmental biology in Ben Steventon’s lab. Through being part of the Data Champions network I hope to learn more about the management of data and share this understanding, as it develops, with my community. I hope to be a part of making academic research more accountable, accessible, and communal.

Frazer Christie, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Glacier Geophysics)

Scott Polar Research Institute

Areas Of Expertise:

Matlab, Data visualisation, Data mining, Statistical analysis, Data Management Plans, Data collection, Database design, Data architecture, Data storage, Institutional repositories, Discipline-specific repositories, General repositories, Data sharing, Open data, FAIR Data, Data archiving, Data preservation, Writing/publishing data papers, Imaging, Geospatial data

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Biography

I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute, where I use a combination of novel satellite imaging techniques, airborne geophysical observations and climate-ocean model data to investigate the key climatic drivers responsible for controlling the rapid deterioration of the Antarctic Ice Sheet since the onset of the satellite era (~1970-present). As such, I have a range of experience in the handling, processing and visualisation of complex geospatial datasets, and have experience in the usage of several different computer programming languages to do this. My experience also includes the long-term archiving and preservation of data to support scientific reproducibility, ranging from the publication of small, project-specific datasets to institutional collections (including assisting with the recent publication of SPRI’s historical Arctic airborne radio echo sounding data archives).

Junaid Bhatti

Research Development and Innovation Manager

Department of Psychiatry

Areas Of Expertise:

SQL, Data Management Plans, Data collection, Database design, Data architecture, Sensitive data, Research data ethics, Data protection and research, Discipline-specific repositories, Data sharing, Data archiving, Open data, Surveys, Imaging, Textual data, REDCap, Socal media and digital communications, Video editing, Illustration, Website development

Contact Information

jb898@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Biography

I’ve been working in the Department of Psychiatry for almost a decade now. I specialise in improving process and workflow and in research data management. I also work in branding, digital recruitment, website design and administration, social media management, and data architecture. I am particularly good at thinking of new and creative solutions to emerging problems. I am currently working on ways to govern and organise the many research projects within my department and in the School of Clinical Medicine, and on creating ways to share research and imaging data (MRI, PET etc) openly.

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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Sargon Gross-Thebing, PhD

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Dillan Saunders

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Frazer Christie, PhD

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Junaid Bhatti

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Xinyi Wen

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