Dr Kamilla Kopec-Harding MSci, PhD

Dr Kamilla Kopec-Harding

Engineering and Physical Sciences
Senior Research Data Scientist

Contact details

Address
Advanced Research Computing
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Kamilla holds an MSci in Chemistry and Pharmacology from the University of Birmingham and a PhD in computational chemistry from the University of Manchester.

After her PhD, she worked as a Research Assistant for the Manchester Asthma and Allergy Study and then as a Scientist and Health Data Manager for the Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology before joining the Research Software Engineering team at the University of Manchester as a Research Software Engineer in 2019.

Kamilla is interested in all areas of data science and has worked with researchers from a range of disciplines (from Computer Science to Earth Sciences), using R and Python to help wrangle data into an analysis ready format and extract useful insights. She is an R enthusiast and was an active contributor to the R User Group at the University of Manchester. She particularly enjoys being an instructor on Carpentries-style coding workshops and has previously delivered sessions on R, Unix shell, and Git.

She joined the Research Software Group at the University of Birmingham as a Senior Research Data Scientist in September 2023, funded by the Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Government (CAIG).