Christian Cole
Research Theme Lead - Population & Digital Health
Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChristian Cole is a Reader in Health Informatics and Research Theme Lead for Population & Digital Health at the University of Dundee, with 11 years of focused experience translating complex health data into clinically relevant insights. He leads the Health Informatics Centre and directs the HDR UK Alleviate APDP Data Hub, building federated infrastructure and OMOP-mapped datasets to break pain-data silos across the UK. His work bridges Trusted Research Environments, machine learning and real-world datasets to improve diversity-aware clinical models and enable decentralised trials and precision public health. Previously he led data science groups in forensic science and bioinformatics, combining high-performance computing, R/Python tooling and strong domain knowledge in chemistry and biology. A pragmatic researcher-practitioner, he routinely moves methods into usable analysis platforms (R Shiny, SQL pipelines) while maintaining academic rigour. Outside the lab he is an occasional artist, reflecting a creative bent that informs his data visualisations and approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences with Industrial Placement, BSc (Hons), Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences with Industrial Placement at University of SunderlandPhD, Medicinal Chemistry, PhD, Medicinal Chemistry at University of Manchester
English, French, Italian
Github Skills (121)
seq10
gene-expression10
utm9
rna-seq9
genome-assembly9
stable9
jailbreak9
latex8
qemu8
emulation8
converting8
csv-import8
jstree8
bioinformatics8
immunology7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
drchriscole/csv2ical
Oct 2014 - Oct 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
bartongroup/profDGE48
Mar 2016 - May 2017
Code base for profiling highly replicated differential gene expression RNA-seq.
Contributions:9 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
profilingdifferential-gene-expressiongene-expressionbioinformaticsgene
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