Birgit Meldal
Senior Manager, Global Data Standards And Ontologies
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBirgit Meldal is a senior manager focused on global data standards and ontologies at Pfizer, bringing 11 years of experience at the intersection of molecular biology, bioinformatics curation, and data stewardship. She has built and led teams to make biomedical data FAIR, drawing on deep domain expertise from roles at EMBL-EBI curating the Complex Portal and IntAct databases and from scientific posts at Cambridge and the Natural History Museum. Her work spans practical ontology development, data onboarding, and standards adoption in both academic and commercial settings, most recently scaling standards practice across Pfizer’s business units. Trained as a molecular geneticist (PhD) with a background in marine biology, she combines rigorous scientific curation with hands-on programme leadership and people management training. Colleagues value her ability to translate complex biological relationships into interoperable data models that accelerate discovery.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Marine Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Marine Biology at Bangor UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Molecular Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Molecular Genetics at University of SouthamptonPeople Leadership Program Level 3 Apprenticeship People Management , People Leadership Program Level 3 Apprenticeship People Management at MultiverseAbitur Biology Latin Maths, Abitur Biology Latin Maths at Gymnasium Paulinum, Muenster, Germany
Github Skills (83)
ontology10
metadata10
owl10
genes10
yaml10
rdf10
geneontology10
semantics9
monarchinitiative9
documentation9
eco8
ontologies8
compounds8
go7
genetics7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bmeldal/go-site
Jun 2015 - Jun 2019
A collection of metadata, tools, and files associated with the Gene Ontology public web presence.
Contributions:8 pushes in 4 years 1 month
jsonldgene-ontologysemanticsgeneontologygene
Complex-Portal/complex-portal-documentation
Apr 2020 - Oct 2021
Documentation for the complex portal web
Contributions:55 pushes in 1 year 5 months
web-portalportal
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