Projects

PhD: Creating Computer models of CaMKII/NMDAR dynamics in 3D (Oct 2020 - Sep 2024)

• At the University of Edinburgh.
• Supervised by Melanie Stefan, David Sterratt and Nicola Romano.
• Funded by Medical Research Scotland and CERN openlab.

The Turing Way Collaborations (Ongoing)

• Participated in two Book Dashes to collaboratively write a new chapter on Data Hazards to the Turing Way Project.
• Was part of the planning committee for the November 2023 Book Dash, faciliating and leading different sessions through the Book Dash week.
• I am currently part of the Book Dash Working Group, where we look at and apply long term goals and administration of Book Dashes.
• Involved in planning and hosting Onboarding Calls for new community members to the TTW project.

Leading Data Hazards workshops (Ongoing)

• Data Hazards workshops. As part of my on-going work with the Data Hazards, I have organised and led multiple iterations of Data Hazard workshops.

Alan Turing Enrichment Student (Oct 2022 - Jun 2023)

• Awarded a 9 month placement at the Alan Turing Institute head quarters in London (£3000).
• Attended AI Ethics and Governance courses
• Participated in Python programming and reproducibility course
• Collaborated with The Turing Way, The Turing Commons and more stakeholders to discuss ethics in neuroinformatics.
• Was the Community Champion for the cohort, which entailed organising social events and bringing people in different areas together.

What Data Hazards apply to my PhD? (March 2023)

• I volunteered and presented a poster at AI UK 2023.
• I created a summary of the work I do for my PhD to think about what Data Hazards apply to it and for people to have discussions with me about it.
• More information on the GitHub repo where the project lives.

Data Hazards, Ethics and Reproducibility Hybrid Symposium (March 2023)

• Co-organized and facilitated with Ceilidh Welsh.
• The theme of this event was “aligning our values with our research: thinking about how to embed ethics and reproducibility into our work”.
• Link to Eventbrite
• Documentation on talks materials is still being updated in the GitHub repository.

Open Life Sciences - cohort 6 (Sep 2022 - Jan 2023)

• During my time at OLS I worked on creating a framework within my PhD that allows the questioning of ethical standards and reproducibility of computer models in Computational Neurobiology, link here.

Bias and reproducibility in a computational neurobiology PhD’s journey (October 2022)

• Presented and discussed a poster on Bias and reproducibility in my PhD as part of COMBINE conference 2022.

Climate Cafes (2021 - 2023)

• Co-led and facilitated multiple Climate Cafes with the Climate Psychology Alliance, from 2021 to 2023.