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Alexia Cardona, PhD

Bioinformatics Training Developer

Department of Genetics

Areas Of Expertise:

R language, Git, Data visualisation, Big data, Data analysis, Bioinformatics, Workshop delivery, Social media and digital comms.

Contact Information

alexia.cardona@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk

ORCiD:

0000-0002-7877-5565

Before joining the University of Cambridge I was a Software Engineer. Since then I have been working on different research projects across different Departments at the University investigating the epigenetics of obesity, diabetes and related metabolic disorders and human evolutionary genetics. I am currently the Bioinformatics Training Developer for the Bioinformatics Training Programme at the University.

Florian Markowetz, PhD

Senior Group Leader

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute

Areas Of Expertise:

Big data, Discipline-specific repositories, Data analysis, Bioinformatics, Coding, R language, Git, Matlab, Data visualisation, Data mining, Machine learning, Statistical analysis, Experimental design, Imaging, Workshop delivery, Social media and digital communications

Contact Information

fm327@cam.ac.uk

@markowetzlab

ORCiD:

0000-0002-2784-5308

Biography

Florian Markowetz is a Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. He is a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holder and received a CRUK Future Leader in Cancer Research prize. He holds degrees in Mathematics (Dipl. math.) and Philosophy (M.A.) from the University of Heidelberg and a Dr. rer. nat. (PhD equivalent) in Computational Biology from Free University Berlin, for which he was awarded an Otto-Hahn Medal by the Max Planck Society. His group at the CRUK Cambridge Institute combines computational work on cancer evolution and image analysis of the tumour tissue with experimental work on understanding key cancer mechanisms like the estrogen receptor.

Karla Cervantes Barron

PhD Student

Department of Engineering

Areas Of Expertise:

Data analysis, Data visualisation, Python, R language, Statistical analysis, Data collection, Database design, Data architecture, Surveys, Workshop delivery, Social media and digital communications

Contact Information

kc512@cam.ac.uk

@twin_karla

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Biography

Karla’s PhD is about the level of energy services used in different countries with a focus on development. The research involves analysing country-level databases, performing statistical analyses and making visualisations.

Karla holds a Bachelors’ degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and an MSc from University College London (UCL).

Karla’s professional experiences before the PhD included working for the non-alcoholic beverage industry in Mexico in the areas of quality, environment protection and operations management.

Mandy Wigdorowitz, PhD

Open Research Community Manager

Areas Of Expertise:

R language, Git, Data visualisation, Statistical analysis, Data Management Plans, Data collection, Experimental design, Copyright, Sensitive data, Research data ethics, Data protection and research, Data policies, Data storage, Institutional repositories, Discipline-specific repositories, General repositories, Data sharing, Code sharing, Open data, FAIR Data, Data archiving, Data preservation, Writing/publishing data papers, Surveys, Audiovisual data, Workshop delivery, Social media & digital communications

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Mandy Wigdorowitz is Open Research Community Manager for Cambridge University Libraries. She holds a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from the University of Cambridge, St John's College, and is a registered Research Psychologist with a Masters in Social and Psychological Research from the University of the Witwatersrand. She is interested in the benefits of open research practices across all research disciplines and is building a community that promotes open research at Cambridge. Her research focuses on understanding language and interaction from linguistic, social, cognitive, and psychological perspectives. Mandy is also the Associate Editor for the Journal of Open Humanities Data, which publishes data papers in disciplines spanning the Humanities.

Alexia Cardona, PhD

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Florian Markowetz, PhD

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