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Amelie Roper, PhD

Research Facilitator

Cambridge University Library

Areas Of Expertise:

Big data, Repositories (general), Institutional repositories, Licensing, Copyright, Sensitive data, Research data ethics, Data protection and research, Data policies, Data Management Plans, Digitisation, Workshop delivery, Website development

Contact Information

alr39@cam.ac.uk

@amelieroper

ORCiD:

0000-0003-3239-2208

Biography

Amelie Roper is Research Facilitator at Cambridge University Library. Her role involves supporting grant applications for research funding for library activities, and assisting with project delivery once funding is awarded.

She studied music at King’s College London and Library and Information Studies at University College London. She also holds a PhD in book history from the University of St Andrews.

Her research interests include early modern European print culture, digital music publishing and big data.

Andrew Thwaites, PhD

Visiting Scientist

Department of Psychology

Areas Of Expertise:

Bioinformatics, Data sharing, Big data, Coding, Python, R language, SQL, Git, Matlab, Java, Data visualisation, Machine learning, Statistical analysis, Data Management Plans, Data policies, Data archiving, Code sharing, Open data, Imaging, Illustration, Website development

Contact Information

acgt2@cam.ac.uk

ORCiD:

0000-0002-6237-7140

Biography

Additional areas of expertise:

Neuroscience data

Curtis Sharma, PhD – Data Champion Programme Lead

Research Data Coordinator

Office of Scholarly Communication

Areas Of Expertise:

R language, Statistical analysis, Research data management, Data Management Plans, Training and outreach, Sharing and storage Sensitive data, Data engineering

Contact Information

cjms2@cam.ac.uk

@CurtisJMSharma

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ORCiD:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3375-0604

Mandy Wigdorowitz

PhD Student

Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Areas Of Expertise:

File sharing systems, Repositories (general), Data analysis, R language, Data visualisation, Statistical analysis, Data Management Plans, Data collection, Database design, Experimental design, Research data ethics, Data protection and research, Data storage, Institutional repositories, Data sharing, Open data, Writing/publishing data papers, Surveys, Workshop delivery, Social media and digital communications

Contact Information

ORCiD:

Biography

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.

Sacha Jones, PhD – Data Champion Programme Supervisor

Research Data Manager

Office of Scholarly Communication

Areas Of Expertise:

Research data management, Data Management Plans, Licensing, Sensitive data, Data storage, Institutional repositories, Apollo (Cambridge University repository), Data sharing, Open data, Statistical analysis, Data collection, Database design, Workshop delivery, Digital illustration

Contact Information

scj23@cam.ac.uk

ORCiD:

0000-0003-0492-2662

Biography

I joined the Office of Scholarly Communication in November 2018 as Research Data Coordinator for the Research Data Management Facility. I manage the Data Champion Programme as part of my role. I have a PhD in Biological Anthropology from the University of Cambridge and was a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research from 2009–2017, specialising in human evolution and Palaeolithic archaeology.

Additional areas of expertise:

Archaeology data

Shamith Samarajiwa, PhD

Group Leader

MRC Cancer Unit

Areas Of Expertise:

File sharing systems, Big data, Discipline-specific repositories, Repositories (general), Data sharing policies, Sensitive data, Code sharing, Data analysis, Bioinformatics, Data science, Coding, Python, R language, Git, SQL, C/C++/C# language, Data visualisation, Data mining, Machine learning, Statistical analysis, Data Management Plans, Electronic Lab Notebooks, Data collection, Database design, Experimental design, Data storage, Data sharing, Open data, Version control, Textual data, Workshop delivery, Website development

Contact Information

ss861@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk

@shamith

ORCiD:

0000-0003-1046-0601

Biography

Shamith is a Group Leader at the MRC Cancer Unit. His lab develops and applies Genomics, Computational Biology, Data Science and AI approaches to understand processes leading to cancer formation and to develop cancer early detection methods.

url: https://samarajiwa-lab.org/

Amelie Roper, PhD

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Andrew Thwaites, PhD

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Curtis Sharma, PhD – Data Champion Programme Lead

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Mandy Wigdorowitz

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Sacha Jones, PhD – Data Champion Programme Supervisor

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Shamith Samarajiwa, PhD

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