Anna is a Research Software Engineer. She fell in love with statistical programming and R in particular, during her PhD in Macroecology at the University of Sheffield. This was followed by two years of freelancing as a Research Data Scientist. These and previous experiences as a quality assurance auditor have led her to focus on efforts to promote more transparent, robust, reproducible research through better scientific software development and research data management.
Anna left the RSE Sheffield team in 2022 to become a freelance Research Software Engineering consultant.
She’s also passionate about community and capacity building. She has extensive teaching experience, was part of the inaugural Mozilla Science Lab Open Leadership Training cohort, has been a veteran mentor on following rounds and a member of the organising committee for the Sheffield R users group.
Key interests include:
Open source research technologies and culture enabling next generation open science.