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I am a part-time PhD student and part-time veterinarian. My research is about the genetics of obesity in dogs, which is also relevant to human genetics genetic and physiological similarities, and shared environmental factors. I am particularly interested in bringing better data management standards to the veterinary field, specially in clinical research.

I received my PhD in cognitive neuroscience from Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL). I am currently a Research Associate at the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. My interests include data processing and analysis methods for neuroimaging techniques employed in developmental research (fNIRS & EEG). I am interested in the application of these methods for investigating functional connectivity and cognitive processes such as social cognition and language acquisition in infant populations.

PhD Student in Archaeology, working with mapping distributions of religious artefacts in Hellenistic sites in Afghanistan and Pakistan

A native of Messina in Italy, Concetta completed her BA in Conservation of Cultural Heritage in 2007 at the University of Messina. During her university years she worked in various libraries and cultural institutions in Italy. She completed her MA in Archival and Library Science at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ in 2009. In 2011 she moved to the UK where she worked as a Cataloguer for Blackwell, Baker & Taylor and YBP/EBSCO, acquiring great experience in cataloguing books and ebooks. In September 2015 she moved to Cambridge University Press where, as Senior Library Data Analyst, she uses her knowledge of cataloguing and metadata to improve the quality of the metadata supplied to customers and third parties. From 2017 she is the Cambridge University Press representative on the Metadata2020 project and from 2019 Social Media Manager for the CILIP – CIG Cataloguing and Indexing Group. 

Additional areas of expertise:

Bibliographic databases, catalogues and repositories. 

Creation and manipulation of metadata using tools like MarcEdit, Bibliofile, Classificationweb, WebDewey. 

Library platforms such as WorldCat, Alma, Primo.