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The Turing Way:

Core Team�2022 - 2023

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Core Team Members�Volunteer/in-Kind

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Andrea Sanchez-Tapia

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Alejandro Coca-Castro

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Dad of a lovely toddler, Matilda Emilia (1.5 yo)
Coffee and world music lover
Enjoy outdoor activities, cycling & travelling
Lived in Vietnam, Switzerland and Spain

Your current role/position: Research Fellow in Environment & Sustainability at the Turing Institute

Roles in The Turing Way: EDS book Project co-lead, Previously Translation and Localisation Co-Lead (2021 - 2023)

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Physical Geography and Agriculture scientist by training with a MSc/PhD @ King’s College London
Topic editor of the Journal of Open Source Education (JOSE)

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Other communities: Scivision (core member), Pangeo (member), Open Life Science (mentor, mentee), NotebookNow! (member)

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Batool Alamarzouq

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Brigitta Sipőcz

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Camila Rangel-Smith

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Carlos Martinez

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Danny Garside

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Esther Plomp

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I like to read books and am reading the Wheel of Time series in 2023
I listen to soca music

Your current role/position: Data Steward at Faculty of Applied Sciences, TU Delft, the Netherlands

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did a PhD in isotope archaeology in the Netherlands

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Other communities: The Carpentries (instructor) (GitHub, Twitter), Open Life Science (mentor, expert) (GitHub, Twitter), IsoArcH (website), TOPS

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Jim Madge

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Lena Karvovskaya

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Sarah Gibson

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I have a cat called Max. He is ginormous and ridiculous.
I love infrastructure/technical stuffs
You can successfully distract me with anything to do with GitHub Actions and/or bots

Your current role/position: Open Source Infrastructure Engineer at 2i2c

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Core contributor to The Turing Way
Member of the JupyterHub team and help operate mybinder.org
Will become the Community Strategic Lead of JupyterHub later in the year (funded by CZI)

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Melissa Black

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Please share your animal photos and gifs!

Current role/position: Impact Measurement Coordinator at MetaDocencia, MetaDocencia Project Liaison with the Catalyst Project

Role in The Turing Way: (2023 - Present) Translation and Localisation Co-Lead

Other communities: OLS (current mentee, previously mentor, facilitator, and speaker), SSI and OLS 2023 fellow

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Staff Members

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Anne Lee-Steele

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Love all things outdoorsy: climbing, mountaineering, ski touring, surfing
Slowly tending to a digital garden)🌿🍵💚🌱🌿🍵
3 younger brothers, family spread all over!

Your current role/position: Community Manager,�The Turing Way

Roles in The Turing Way: �(2022 - Current) Community Manager

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Working/worked with various nodes in the open ecosystem: Internet Society, Wikimedia Deutschland, Open Knowledge Foundation
Anthropologist/sociologist by training w/ a MA (Graduate Institute of Geneva) and BA (Columbia University)

Other communities: Open Knowledge Foundation (fellow), Internet Society (fellow), Open Life Science (mentor), Open Source Social Science (organiser), Re:source (founder), TechnoSoc: Sociologists of Digital Things (contributor), Wikipedia WikiLabour Project (contributor), Wikirate (contributor). Connect with me: @aleesteele (github, twitter, fediverse)

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Kirstie Whitaker

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I’m better at slack than email
My lockdown skills include cross stitch and poached eggs on avocado toast
I watch one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies pretty much every day 🙈

Your current role/position:

Director of the Tools, Practices and Systems research programme at the Turing Institute
PI: The Turing Way, AutSPACEs, AI for Multiple Long Term Conditions Research Support Facility
Analytics Lead: DECOVID
Co-I: Data Safe Haven, EDoN
Theme Lead: TPS Theme of AI for Science and Government
Chair: Turing Ethics Advisory Group (soon to be Turing Research Ethics Committee 🦖)

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Malvika Sharan

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Lived in Germany for 11 yrs before moving to the UK in 2020
Background in (RNA, Molecular & infection) bioinformatics
Almost always sleep deprived and thinking about food 😂

Your current role/position: Senior researcher: Open Research

Roles in The Turing Way: Project co-lead, Previously Community Manager (2019 - 2021)

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Learn/practice community Management, inclusive research, collaboration in open science
Co-founded a mentoring and training programme: Open Life Science
Open for all kinds of discussion on research practices, training and capacity building

https://malvikasharan.github.io/

Connect with me: @malvikasharan (Gh, Twitter, mastodon, linkedin)

Other communities: Open Life Science, CS&S, MetaDocencia, The Carpentries, SSI, NASA-TOPS

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TPS Project Management

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Arielle Bennett

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I love to walk: I walked 100km in 27 hours in 2021 and signed up to another one in 2022🏃‍♀️
I have a lot of plants🌱, do a lot of baking, and also read a lot as well (sci-fi recommendations particularly welcome!) 🛸

Your current role/position: Programme Manager for Tools, Practices & Systems

This means you can come to me for help with lots of different bits & pieces while at the Turing!

Roles in The Turing Way: (Year - Year) contributor to The Turing Way (on research infrastructure roles and activism)

I also participate in OLS as mentor and a community of practice on scientific community management (CSCCE)
I have worked in lots of different roles prior to this: pharma, startups, publishing...

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David Sarmiento-Perez

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I enjoy hiking in the highlands and casually climbing
Picked woodcarving as a pandemic hobby and sticked with it
Send Scifi and fantasy down my alley please, a Locked Tomb enthusiast
I’m actually Andalusian despite my Scottish looks

Your current role/position: Research Project Manager:

I hope to help researchers do their best work
This means I coordinate people and make sure things happen

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Léllé Demertzi

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I channel my environmental anxiety in my art practice, working with ephemeral media (video and performance)
Dancer, cultural producer, stand-up comedian, and sailor
Shortcuts to my heart: seaside, sunsets, jazz, turtles, ducks, and mangoes

Your current role/position: �Research Project Manager, The Turing Way�AI & Arts Interest Group Organiser

I support the operational delivery of research projects
You can reach out for all Turing Way bits and pieces
I’m particularly interested in cross-disciplinary creative synergies

Connect with me: www.lelledi.com

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TPS Community Managers

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Alexandra Araujo Alvarez

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I’ve produced over 100 theatre plays (including Mamma Mia! & Billy Elliot)
Got a Great Taste Award for my ‘alfajores’ in 2013

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Research Project Manager, The Turing Way

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Economic Engineer with a MA in Marketing

Previous experience in Research mainly about Mental Health and the Arts

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Arron Lacey

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Dad to 2 young boys
I love cooking and publish recipes in a local lifestyle magazine (@mrgtgcooks)
Proficient in guitar, magnificent at air guitar

Your current role/position: Senior Community Manager for the Early Detection of Neurodegenerative Diseases (EDoN) project

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Honorary Lecturer in Health Data Science at Swansea University

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Eirini Zormpa

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LOVE books (and buying them) more than my flat can handle
I took up knitting during the pandemic and I’m now low-key obsessed
I want to see your pets 🐈🐕🐇🐓🐐🐢

Your current role/position: Community Manager Open Collaboration within AIM-RSF

Roles in The Turing Way: (2022 - present) Core Staff Member

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Carpentries instructor and (newly) maintainer ✨
Previously worked as a trainer on research data management
Even more previously I helped set up an Open Science Community in Nijmegen and the R Ladies Nijmegen chapter
I have a BA in English (in Greece), an MSc in Language Science (in the UK), and a PhD in Psycholinguistics (in the Netherlands)

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Other communities: The Carpentries (instructor, maintainer, curriculum advisory committee member) (GitHub, Twitter), R-Ladies London (organiser) (GitHub, Twitter)

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Emma Karoune

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Mum to two kiddies (means I usually keep work to school hours)
Like walking, gardening and cooking.

Your current role/position: Senior Community Manager of Turing-RSS Lab and DECOVID project at Turing

Roles in The Turing Way: (Year - Year): Core contributor to The Turing Way

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PI of FAIR phytoliths project at Historic England (I’m an Archaeobotanist!).
Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) Fellow
UK-Elixir FAIR Data Fellow
Open life Science Mentor

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Sophia Batchelor

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I’m a kiwi (from New Zealand) so I come with an accent
My primary field is neuro with VR/AR a close second so I’m always happy to chat about VR tech

Your current role/position: PPIE Community Manager with the AIM RSF (and AutSPACEs)

Roles in The Turing Way: (2022 - present) Core Staff Member, (2020-2022) Contributor & Mentor

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General support role with AutSPACEs (have been busy with PhD life recently so am coming back in in 2 weeks time)
Data privacy and Neuro/bio ethics is one of my other “soapboxes” and I do some work on open source projects

Find me on Twitter or GitHub

Other communities: Reality Hack (mentor, organizer), AIM Open Communities, Open Life Science, Software Sustainability Institute

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Vicky Hellon

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I love baking- sourdough and sweet treats!
I’ve been lucky enough to travel to over 35 countries

Your current role/position: Community Manager for Turing-Roche Partnership

Roles in The Turing Way: (2021 - Present) Core Staff Member, Member of Reviewers and Editors Group

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Bsc in Biomedical Science from Uni of Sheffield
Previously worked in Open Access publishing and have strong views on the ‘big five’ publishers(!)

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Twitter@vickyhellon

GitHub: vhellon

Other communities: OLS-5

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TPS Senior Researchers

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Bastian

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Always loves doing some self-research ⌚️📊
Misses some aspects of wet lab work and thus started doing analog photography 📷🧑‍🔬🧪
A lot more info is at https://tzovar.as/

Your current role/position: Senior Researcher: Citizen Science

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Used to be a biologist
Director of Research @ Open Humans
Co-Founder @ openSNP
Board member @ Open Bioinformatics Foundation

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Aida Mehonic

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I used to work in two large corporations, in one start-up and in the Programme Management unit at Turing prior to my current role.
I have a toddler daughter who’s currently adjusting to her nursery - sometimes you will see her on a zoom call with me if she’s managed to skive off nursery. :)

Your current role/position: Research Application Manager in Tools, Practices and Systems (TPS) at Turing;

I work across the ASG Programme to embed research outputs into real world implementations that are *used* by someone;

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Christopher Burr

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I lead the Innovation and Impact Hub for the Turing Research and Innovation Cluster for Digital Twins
I lead the Turing Commons project—an online platform to support open dialogue and reflection about the responsible design, development, and deployment of data-driven technologies (highly influenced by the awesome TTW community).

Your current role/position: Senior Researcher for Trustworthy Systems—Tools, Practices, and Systems

Roles in The Turing Way:

Reviewer and Contributor (2023 - Present)

Connect with me: @chrisdburr (GH/Twitter)

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TPS Research Application Managers

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Alden Conner

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I moved to London from California
I ride horses and compete in showjumping
I love to cook and bake

Your current role/position: Research Application Manager in Tools, Practices and Systems (TPS) at Turing

Started October 2021

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I have a background in cell biology, light microscopy, and product management

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Github @aldenc

@alden@spore.social

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aldenconner/

Other communities: OLS-6

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Jen Ding

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Coming to 🇬🇧 via NYC via Portland via Texas
Former founder of a parking tech startup, but have never owned a car and am into walking as my transpo mode of choice
Into trying new ways to make coffee

Your current role/position: Research Application Manager in Tools, Practices and Systems (TPS) at Turing

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CS M.Eng @ Cornell Tech
EE B.S. + Policy Studies B.A. @ Rice U

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Hari Sood

Other things to know about me:

Outdoors is the best doors
Enjoy jamming but not very well!
Enjoy sport but not very coordinated!
I can recite Animaniacs’ ‘Nations of the World’ by heart

Your current role/position: Research Application Manager for the Data Safe Haven Project

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Philosomathtor (Maths & Philosophy)
Ran a (still live) social justice learning platform - there’s lots of facts to learn!

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Shakir Laher

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<Really enjoy exploring - currently Great Britain which I have neglected for too long>
<Going through a phase of learning DIY practical skills e.g., tiling, joinery, plastering, etc>

Your current role/position: <Research Application Manager in Tools, Practices and Systems (TPS) at Turing - Primarily assisting the AI Standards Hub project within the Public Policy Programme achieve their aims and objectives.

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<Education in Computer Science>
<Experienced in translational research and technical writing>

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Previous members of the core/organising team

https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way, @turingway, @aleesteele

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Achintya Rao

Other things to know about me:

The hair is a lie. It’s an old photo!
I arrived in Bristol from Bombay via London and Geneva.
I can speak, to varying degrees, up to six languages (Kannada, Marathi, Hindi, Spanish and French) and am now learning Italian.

Your current role/position: Community Manager,�AI for Science and Government

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In my previous life, I worked on communicating (mostly) particle physics
✅ BSc in physics� St Xavier’s College, Mumbai
✅ MA in science journalism� City University London
🤞 PhD in science communication: UWE Bristol

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