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Hugo Tavares, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Department of Genetics

Bioinformatics Training Facility

Areas Of Expertise:

Bioinformatics, Coding, Python, R language, Git, Data analysis, Data visualisation, Big data, Data mining, Machine learning, Statistical analysis, Data collection, Experimental design, Data storage, Institutional repositories, Discipline-specific repositories, Data sharing, Code sharing, Open data, Workshop delivery

Contact Information

hm533@cam.ac.uk

Biography

Additional areas of expertise:

Plant science, Quantitative genetics.

Janina Schupp, PhD

Affiliated Lecturer and Research Associate

Department of Architecture

Areas Of Expertise:

Data mining, Data collection, Database design, Data sharing, Audiovisual data, Workshop delivery, Video editing

Contact Information

js2034@cam.ac.uk

Biography

I am an Affiliated Lecturer in Architecture and the Moving Image and a researcher working with large audio-visual datasets. I specialise in developing digital methodologies and database approaches for film and media research. I am currently the main researcher of the ‘CineMuseSpace: A Cinematic Musée Imaginaire of Spatial Cultural Differences’ project (cinemusespace.com).

Additional areas of expertise:

Audio-visual data analysis, film databases, metadata ontologies.

Jiayin Hong, PhD

Research Associate

Department of Biochemistry

Areas Of Expertise:

Python, R language, Git, SQL, Matlab, Data visualisation, Big data, Data mining, Machine learning, Statistical analysis, Electronic Lab Notebooks, Version control, Bioinformatics, Workshop delivery

Contact Information

jh2313@cam.ac.uk

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ORCiD:

0000-0002-2212-558X

Biography

Jiayin is a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Biochemistry. Holding a Ph.D in Integrated Life Sciences and Physics, Jiayin is passionate about unraveling intricate mechanisms in epigenetics, transcriptional regulation, and cancer biology. Her approach blends experimental techniques with computational methods.

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.

Kate Arhel, MCLIP

College Librarian, Hughes Hall

Areas Of Expertise:

Copyright, Sensitive data, Institutional repositories, General repositories, Textual data, Workshop delivery, Other - Information literacy, creating and managing bibliographic data (AACR2, RDA, MARC21, LCSH)

Contact Information

kma30@cam.ac.uk

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Lizzie Sparrow

Research Support Librarian

Department of Engineering / Cambridge University Libraries

Areas Of Expertise:

Data Management Plans, Open data, Data policies, Copyright, Licensing, Workshop delivery

Contact Information

eja47@cam.ac.uk

@library_lizzie

Biography

As the Research Support Librarian at the Department of Engineering I am part of the Technology Libraries team providing library services for the Departments of Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, and Computer Science and Technology. My role includes providing training and advice on research data management and open data. I became a Data Champion in my previous role as the Library Manager at the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, supporting nature conservation researchers from the university and NGOs. I have previous experience, from research during masters degrees, working with ethnographic data in libraries and statistical analysis of palaeobiology data using R.

Lucy Chambers

Senior Research Officer

Cambridge University Press and Assessment

Areas Of Expertise:

Data Management Plans, Data collection, Experimental design, Surveys, Workshop delivery

Contact Information

chambers.l@cambridgeassessment.org.uk

ORCiD:

0000-0002-6039-8175

Lucy Woolhouse

Genetics Librarian

Areas Of Expertise:

Data Management Plans, Licensing, Copyright, Sensitive data, Research data ethics, Data protection and research, Institutional repositories, Discipline-specific repositories, Data sharing, Open data, Workshop delivery, Social media and communications, Website development

Contact Information

lew48@cam.ac.uk

@LucyWoolhouse

Biography

As the librarian at the Department of Genetics, I provide research support for students and staff in the department and more broadly across the School of Biological Sciences. I can advise on Open Research issues, as well as teaching on various research skills topics in both school- and university-wide programme

Mark Fernandes

Bioinformatics Training Developer

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute

Areas Of Expertise:

File sharing systems, Big data, Discipline-specific repositories, Repositories (general), Licensing, Copyright, Sensitive data, Code sharing, Bioinformatics, RDM training, Coding, Python, R language, SQL, Git, Database design, Data storage, Workshop delivery, Social media and digital communications, Video editing, Website development

Contact Information

mark.fernandes@cruk.cam.ac.uk

@MAFatCRUK

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Biography

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.

Matthew Evans

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow

Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

Areas Of Expertise:

Python, Data visualisation, Machine learning, Electronic Lab Notebooks, Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), Data collection, Database design, Data architecture, Version control, Licensing Copyright, Git, Institutional repositories, Discipline-specific repositories, General repositories, Data sharing, Code sharing, Open data, FAIR Data, Data archiving, Writing/publishing data papers, Cheminformatics, Digitisation, Workshop delivery, Website development, Other programming languages

Contact Information

me388@cam.ac.uk

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ORCiD:

0000-0002-1182-9098

Biography

I'm a research fellow working to improve data management practices broadly across the materials and chemical sciences, with the aim to accelerate discovery and enable new data-driven approaches in the physical sciences. I lead the development of the decentralised open source RDM platform, datalab, used by several labs in Cambridge and beyond to track sample provenance, ingest raw characterisation data from instruments and easily disseminate data within and between labs. datalab has been designed primarily with materials chemistry and battery groups in mind, but has been extended to work for polymer research, direct air capture and autonomous labs. I also work extensively on API standardisation for crystal structure databases, via my involvement in OPTIMADE. I am very happy to discuss how people can engage with this work if they are in this domain, or how the approach could be adopted by other domains.

Before starting my current role, I completed my undergraduate studies in Theoretical Physics at the University of Manchester, after which I joined the University of Cambridge for an MPhil in Scientific Computing and subsequent PhD in Physics where I worked on crystal structure prediction for battery materials. I then joined UCLouvain in Belgium for a postdoc and research fellowship, before making my way back to Cambridge in 2025 as a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow.

Hugo Tavares, PhD

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Janina Schupp, PhD

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Jiayin Hong, PhD

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Karla Cervantes Barron

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Kate Arhel, MCLIP

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Lizzie Sparrow

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Lucy Chambers

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Lucy Woolhouse

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Mark Fernandes

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Matthew Evans

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