Meet the team

[Alessia Visconti] | [Fiona Wardle] | [Flavia Flaviani] | [Fursham Hamid] | [James Cain] | [Neil Jakeman] | [Stefania Marcotti]

KCL Carpentries coordinator

Fiona Wardle

• Job title: Senior Lecturer
• Research interest
  • Developmental biology

KCL Carpentries Instructors

Alessia Visconti

• Job title: Research Fellow
• Background: Computer Science
• Research interest:
  • Computational biology & medicine
  • Machine learning & data mining
  • Research software engineering
• Taught workshops:
  • SWC/LC Workshop: Introduction to Python
    • January 9-10, 2020
  • SWC-like Workshop: Introduction to Unix
    • May 2022
    • November 2021
    • May 2021
    • November 2020
    • Summer 2020
  • SWC-like Workshop: Introduction to Git
    • May 2022
    • March 2022
    • November 2021
    • June 2021
    • December 2020
    • Summer 2020

Flavia Flaviani

• Job title: Senior bioinformatician
• Background: Bioinformatics and bio-ecology
• Research interest:
  • Bioinformatics & computational biology
  • Genomics
  • Microbial ecology
  • NGS & translational medicine
• Taught workshops:
  • SWC-like Workshop: Introduction to Unix
    • May 2022
    • November 2021
    • May 2021
    • November 2020
    • Summer 2020
  • SWC-like Workshop: Introduction to Git
    • May 2022
    • March 2022
    • November 2021
    • June 2021
    • December 2020
    • Summer 2020

Neil Jakeman

• Job title: Senior Research Software Analyst
• Background: Geographic Information Systems and 3D visualisation
• Research interest:
  • Cultural heritage visualisation
  • Research software engineering
• Taught workshops:
  • SWC/LC Workshop: Introduction to Python
    • January 9-10, 2020
  • LC-like Workshop: Introduction to OpenRefine
    • March 3, 2021

Stefania Marcotti

• Job title: Research Associate
• Background: Biomechanical engineering
• Research interest:
  • Bioimage and data analysis
  • Computer vision
  • Research software engineering
• Taught workshops:
  • SWC/LC Workshop: Introduction to Python
    • January 9-10, 2020
  • SWC-like Workshop: Introduction to Unix
    • May 2022
    • November 2021
    • May 2021
    • November 2020
    • Summer 2020
  • SWC-like Workshop: Introduction to Git
    • May 2022
    • March 2022
    • November 2021
    • June 2021
    • December 2020
    • Summer 2020

KCL Carpentries Helpers

Fursham Hamid

• Job title: Research Associate
• Background: RNA Biologist in brain development
• Research interest:
  • High Throughput Transcriptomics
  • Alternative pre-mRNA splicing
  • Single-cell RNA sequencing analyses

James Cain

• Job title: PhD Student
• Background: Epigenetic Regulation
• Research interest:
  • Epigenomics & NGS
  • Bioinformatics
  • Gene Regulation

Kai Lim

• Job title: PhD Student
• Background: Psychiatry Genomics
• Research interest:
  • Mental health
  • Statistical genetics/genomics
  • Machine learning