Andrew Beckerman
Faculty Of Science, Director Of Education
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrew Beckerman is an evolutionary ecologist and academic leader who serves as Director of Education for the Faculty of Science and a long-standing professor at the University of Sheffield, with over two decades of research and teaching experience. His work spans food-web and network ecology, predation risk, aquatic community ecology and algal biotechnology, and he co-edits the open-access journal Ecology and Evolution. Author of the bestselling Getting Started with R and an advocate for statistical training, he combines rigorous quantitative skills with practical pedagogy. He chairs the board of the data repository Dryad, reflecting a commitment to reproducible science and data sharing. Outside academia he’s an avid cyclist and bass player, a detail that hints at a collaborative, performance-oriented approach to research and leadership.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Ecology, PhD Ecology at Yale UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc) Biology and Environmental Studies, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Biology and Environmental Studies at Tufts UniversityMasters of Forest Science Ecology, Masters of Forest Science Ecology at Yale School of the Environment
Github Skills (9)
quarto8
ggplot7
r-package6
r4
data-analysis3
documentation3
api2
csharp1
julia1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
andbeck/mcmc-plus-tensor
Feb 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 5 years 2 months
andbeck/BayPass
Aug 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:41 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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