Benjamin Williams
Data Analysis Scientist
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Williams is a data analysis scientist with a decade of experience blending experimental condensed-matter research and production software engineering to deliver real-time, automated measurement and analysis pipelines. At Diamond Light Source he designs and deploys bespoke data acquisition and near-real-time processing systems for large scientific experiments, drawing on a DPhil in condensed matter physics and hands-on hardware commissioning. He is skilled in scientific computing, collaborative open-source best practices and building integrated software-hardware workflows that turn high-volume experimental data into actionable feedback. His background spans solid-state physics, structural chemistry and biology, and he has a proven track record of translating novel measurement methodologies from lab prototypes into robust operational tools. He is also passionate about teaching, science communication and accessibility technologies, often bringing user-focused design into technically demanding instrument software.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
DPhil, Condensed Matter Physics, DPhil, Condensed Matter Physics at University of Oxford
Github Skills (50)
expert-system10
infrared10
toolbox10
python10
zarr10
mass-spectrometry10
crystallography10
diffraction10
raycasting10
cpp10
web-application9
molecule9
pyvisa9
detectors9
metadata9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
oxpig/ANARCII
Apr 2025 - Jun 2026
A language model suite for numbering antigen receptor sequences.
Contributions:8 reviews, 4 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 2 months
language-model
DiamondLightSource/python-tristan
Mar 2021 - Oct 2024
Tools to support processing of data from the experimental event-mode Tristan detectors.
Contributions:8 reviews, 87 PRs, 365 pushes in 3 years 7 months
detectors
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