Aidan Budd
Leadership Trainer at EMBO Solutions GmbH
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolAidan Budd is a leadership trainer and community-builder with 12 years' experience helping life science and bioinformatics researchers grow strategic leadership skills and foster inclusive research cultures. Based in Heidelberg, he has run leadership and bioinformatics training, coordinated national infrastructure (ELIXIR-UK), and organised dozens of international conferences and courses spanning three continents. His background combines a PhD in bioinformatics with early editorial and research roles, giving him rare fluency in both technical science and strategic communications. Aidan champions diversity, equity and inclusion as levers for more effective, efficient science and has a track record securing funding and growing user communities for tools like SignaLink and Navigomix. He also contributes to well-known community projects such as the Software Carpentry website, improving content taxonomy to reflect evolving community language. Colleagues know him for blending rigorous scientific credentials with practical training design and thoughtful community stewardship.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Bioinformatics, PhD, Bioinformatics at Royal Holloway, University of LondonBA, Zoology, BA, Zoology at University of CambridgePhD, Bioinformatics, PhD, Bioinformatics at EMBL
English, German
Github Skills (11)
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content-management10
tagging10
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metadata-management9
markdown-it8
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
swcarpentry/website-archive
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Software Carpentry website (Archive)
Role in this project:
Technical Writer / Content Strategist
Technical Writer / Content StrategistContributions:9 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Aidan primarily focused on updating the tags associated with blog posts within the Software Carpentry website repository. Their work involved changing existing tags to reflect more current and accurate terminology, such as switching from "bootcamps" to "workshops" and updating "community" to "instructor development." This resulted in improved categorization and organization of the website's content. Furthermore, they demonstrated an understanding of the evolution of the organization's language and the need for consistency in tagging.
liquidcarpentryjekyllsoftware-carpentry
aidanbudd/bosc2015
Jul 2015 - Nov 2015
Using BOSC2015 unconference sessions on building successful open source bioinformatics communities to write an open collaborative article
Contributions:55 commits, 15 PRs, 44 pushes in 4 months
bioinformatics
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