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Marina has a PhD from the Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Department at the University of Cambridge. She has previous industrial experience in R&D by working with multinational companies and start-ups. Currently, Marina is a Research Analyst at the Strategic Partnerships Office. She is responsible for research and analysis on international projects and partnerships to provide support to the Head of Public International Partnerships, the Strategic Partnerships Managers, and senior academics across the University. She is also responsible for the website development and management.

I am a member of the Research on Research Culture (ARRC) project, studying various questions pertaining to research culture and how can we improve it. Prior to that, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, and I have a PhD in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience.

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.