Data Champions Search

I am a post-doctoral physicist working in the Department of Radiology, with a background in programming and a particular interest in medical image analysis and software design. I am currently involved in setting up and maintenance of processes for data storage, sharing and archiving for the department - with particular emphasis on medical research image data.
 

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.

I am a PhD student at the MRC Biostatistics Unit, interested in applying machine learning techniques to biological data. I have worked on classification of cancer (sub)types using XGBoost models. I am currently working on trying to uncover biological details about the immune system using graph data and graph machine learning.

I have over 30 years experience of Scientific Computing. I have worked on Image analysis of Light Microscopy images, Scientific IT Support (13 years), Data-driven web applications of mathematical models and Bioinformatics Training at the Institute of Food Research (Now the Quadram Institute). I have been involved in an EU Framework Database Workshop. I strive to include good data-handling and reproducibility practices into all training materials.