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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).

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.

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and a Research Psychologist registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa. I sit on the Executive Committee of the Division for Research and Methodology of the Psychological Society of South Africa and I am the Assistant Editor for the Journal of Open Humanities Data. I am interested in understanding language and interaction from social, cognitive and psychological perspectives, as well as applying, developing and evaluating psychometric assessments.

My research involves developing computational methods to explore the chemical biology of the genome and investigating proteins catalysing chemical modifications in DNA.

Additional areas of expertise:

Computational biology/chemistry.