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Amy is a Research Project Manager and Information Scientist at the Gurdon Institute. She has experience working for an Open Access publisher and completed her PhD at the University of Exeter in 2019.

In my research, I use linguistic datasets to analyze native language influence on second language acquisition. I also develop methods that can be used to work with these datasets, and make my own datasets available to others. In the past, I conducted some experimental research, and have published a paper on online recruitment. 
    
In addition to my research, I actively engage in science communication, with the goal of discussing complex research in a way that helps people understand and implement it. I do this primarily via two websites that I run: Effectiviology (https://effectiviology.com/), where I write about psychology and philosophy that have practical applications, and Solving Procrastination (https://solvingprocrastination.com/), where I write about what procrastination is, why we do it, and how we can successfully overcome it.

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.