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Recent PhD graduate in evolutionary biology | Statistical modelling and R

Profile Summary

I have over seven years' experience using the R programming language for statistics, which I used throughout a Master's and PhD, including teaching statistical programming to Master's students. My main strengths are in assessing the needs of a project, identifying the appropriate statistical tests, and summarising the results in a succinct and accessible way.

I have used R for data exploration and visualisation, statistical tests, and modelling using general and generalised linear regressions, publishing the results in peer-reviewed journals. I have also run bioinformatic tools (e.g. Blast, FastQC, Kallisto, PAML) on a high performance computing cluster through jobs written in bash.

My PhD, which I finished in 2021, looked at the hormonal and genomic adaptations to sociality in the naked mole-rat, a curious rodent that lives in large, complex groups. The research applied cutting-edge methods to estimate the urinary hormones and gene expression in the blood, concluding that a novel adaptation to dopamine pathways may explain how this extreme social system evolved.

I enjoy discussing research projects and statistical problems - please don't hesitate to get in touch if you would like to discuss any aspect of your project or anything I may be able to help with.

Subject Matter Expertise

Services

Writing
Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing

Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Big Data Analytics

Work Experience

Department Officer

Kings College London

September 2016 - September 2017

Project Support Assistant

Haringay Council

January 2013 - May 2014

Education

PhD (School of Biological and Chemical Sciences)

Queen Mary University of London

March 2018 - Present

Human Evolution

University College London, University of London

September 2014 - September 2015

BSc Zoology and Psychology (Departments of Biology and Psychology)

University of Bristol

September 2009 - June 2012

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Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

(2020). The relationship between individual phenotype and the division of labour in naked mole-rats: it’s complicated . PeerJ.

James Gilbert, Caroline Uggla, Ruth Mace(2016). Knowing your neighbourhood: local ecology and personal experience predict neighbourhood perceptions in Belfast, Northern Ireland . Royal Society Open Science. 3. (12). p. 160468. The Royal Society