Dr Helen Parkinson
Helen Parkinson leads the Knowledge Management Section of EMBL-EBI having previously led the Molecular Archival Resources. Her Samples, Phenotypes and Ontologies Team delivers databases, analyses, data integration tools and ontologies for biomedicine. She moved to bioinformatics and computational biology while performing positional cloning for primary pulmonary hypertension, a rare genetic disease. Helen's passion is semantic data integration and providing users with useful data. Her team participates extensively in international collaborations ranging from data analysis and data generation projects to data integration projects such EOSCLife, Health Data Research UK, Intervene, the Patient Derived Cancer Models Finder, the GWAS and PGS Catalogs and others. Prior to joining EMBL-EBI in 2000, Helen was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Leicester, where she worked on the genetic basis of the genetic disease Primary Pulmonary Hypertension, Hypophosphatasia and synteny at human chromosomes 7 and 12. Her PhD thesis examined the temperature compensation of circadian rhythms in Drosophila.
Dr Lamar Moore
Dr Lamar Moore is the Head of Software at OC Robotics (GE Aerospace) where he leads a team of developers delivering tools for the Aerospace Industry. Prior to this, Lamar spent many years in the public sector science space as Scientific Software Group Leader at the ISIS Neutron and Muon facility. He led three large teams of research software engineers and data scientists across data reduction, systems development and data analysis. In this role, Lamar was able to influence the adoption of software best-practice and sustainable approaches to software development both within his facility and worldwide.
Dr Sarah Gibson
Sarah Gibson is an Open Source Infrastructure Engineer at 2i2c, an open source contributor and advocate. She holds more than two years of experience as a research engineer at a national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, as well as holding a core contributor role in the open source projects JupyterHub, Binder, and The Turing Way. Sarah is passionate about working with domain experts to leverage cloud computing in order to accelerate cutting-edge, data-intensive research and disseminating the results in an open, reproducible, and reusable manner. Sarah holds a Fellowship with the Software Sustainability Institute and advocates for best software practices in research. She is a member of the mybinder.org operating team and maintains infrastructure supporting a global community in sharing reproducible computational environments. She has also mentored projects through two cohorts of the Open Life Science programme and Outreachy, imparting lived experience of her skills participating and leading in open science projects.
Dr Marion Weinzierl
Marion is a Senior Research Software Engineer in Advanced Research Computing at Durham University, and the RSE Theme Leader of the N8 Centre of Excellence for Computationally Intensive Research (N8 CIR). In the latter role, she is leading the N8 RSE community and the N8 RSE leaders network, co-leads the N8 CIR Women in High Performance Computing chapter, chairs the user group of the tier-2 supercomputer Bede, and co-leads the Bede Support Group. Marion has a degree in Media Informatics and a PhD in Scientific Computing. Previously she worked both in academia and in industry in computational physics (in various forms).
