About
I am a Data Scientist at the Computational Biology Facility, which is part of the Liverpool Shared Research Facilities and hosted within the Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology. Our team offers public services for data science, software and database development and training in computational biology, programming and -omics analyses. You can find out more about our work and the CBF team here. We are a friendly bunch and always open for collaboration, feel free to reach out!
My experience before joining the CBF:
I am originally from Bulgaria. In 2014 I moved to York, UK, where I was immersed in research at the University of York for 9 years. I graduated as a Master of Biology in Genetics in 2018, then worked as a research technician shared between Prof Ian Bancroft and Dr Andrea Harper's plant genomics research groups for a year. In 2019 I started my PhD in Prof Paul Genever's lab, where I applied cutting-edge spatial multi-omics to map the biomolecular changes associated with post-traumatic knee osteoarthritis. I gained experience in spatial mass spectrometry-based lipidomics/peptidomics (MALDI-IMS), and spatial transcriptomics and proteomics (Digital Spatila Profiling). During my PhD I enjoyed the data analysis side of research the most and honed my bioinformatics and data science skills.
Exploring datasets and discovering patterns is fun! However, integrating multiple -omics together is challenging; I am excited to contribute to the CBF team's mission of overcoming this bottleneck in research while learning more about new areas of biology I have not yet been exposed to. I am particularly interested in applying spatial omics and integrating multi-omics to drive novel therapeutic insights and deliver solutions to real-life problems. Contributing to meaningful research that has the potential to improve people's quality of life - this is what brings me fulfillment.