Andrew Harris
Laboratory Biologist II
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Harris is a multidisciplinary laboratory biologist with 16 years of research experience spanning biophysics, neuroscience, physics and science policy, currently supporting rapid diagnostics at Health Canada. He combines hands-on molecular and biophysical techniques with policy-facing roles developing evidence-informed maintenance strategies for national biomedical stockpiles. His academic track record includes a PhD in Biophysics, postdoctoral optogenetics work at the Weizmann Institute, and managing a major machine learning research group where he supported grant writing, outreach and student mentorship. Comfortable working across four countries and diverse lab environments, he also contributes to open educational projects—fixing and clarifying code and notebooks for the well-regarded ThinkComplexity2 resource—demonstrating attention to reproducibility and communication.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biophysics at University of Guelph
Github Skills (8)
jupyter-notebook10
typos10
error-correction10
python10
documentation9
data-visualization8
data-visualisation8
data-visualizations8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
AllenDowney/ThinkComplexity2
Jan 2017 - Mar 2018
Book and code for Think Complexity, 2nd edition
Role in this project:
Technical Writer / Code Contributor
Technical Writer / Code ContributorContributions:25 commits, 14 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the repository by fixing typos and small errors in the notebooks. Their work involved correcting text inconsistencies, such as misspellings, and ensuring accuracy in code examples within different chapters. They also addressed minor formatting issues, like swapping colors in a visualization. The user's contributions focused on improving the clarity and correctness of the educational content.
thinkcomplexity
gwtaylor/imCRBM
Jun 2012 - May 2020
Contributions:15 commits, 4 pushes in 8 years
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