Summary
Anna Krystalli is a Research Software Engineer with 11 years of experience bridging ecological research and reproducible data science, currently helping researchers at the University of Sheffield make code and data more reusable, reproducible and long-lived. She combines a PhD in Marine Macroecology with hands-on skills in R, version-controlled workflows, interactive reports and apps, and has delivered training and community-building through Carpentry workshops and R user-group events. As a freelancer she has curated well-documented, versioned research projects (including network analyses of bird trait associations) that emphasize onboarding and future reuse. An active contributor to the R research-software community—editor at rOpenSci, core team member at ReproHack and former RSE-Sheffield contributor—she focuses on turning complex analyses into documented, shareable research products.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Marine Macroecology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Marine Macroecology at The University of Sheffield
BSc, Marine Biology & Oceanography, 1st, BSc, Marine Biology & Oceanography, 1st at University of Plymouth
English, Greek