Ed Chalstrey
Organiser - Entrepreneurship Interest Group at The Alan Turing Institute
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEd Chalstrey is a research data scientist and organiser with 11 years’ experience bridging data science, bioinformatics and entrepreneurship at The Alan Turing Institute in London. He leads the Institute’s Entrepreneurship Interest Group and hosts The Turing Podcast, combining technical research with public-facing storytelling and community building. His background includes bioinformatics research and internships, an MSc in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, and commercial analytics work supporting financial clients. Comfortable moving between research, engineering and engagement, he focuses on turning complex data into actionable insights and translating research outcomes for non-technical audiences. Colleagues know him for convening networks across academia and industry and for an ability to package technical work into accessible narratives. He maintains a personal site (edchalstrey.com) that reflects his mix of technical depth and outreach.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Biology/Biological Sciences General, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Biology/Biological Sciences General at University of EssexMSc Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, MSc Bioinformatics and Systems Biology at Birkbeck, University of LondonChipping Norton School
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Github Skills (97)
digital-humanities10
image-processing10
readability10
machine-vision10
image-analysis10
python-can10
computer-vision10
science10
data-science10
spatial-data10
python-mode10
alan10
environmental9
environmental-monitoring9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
alan-turing-institute/scivision
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
scivision: a framework for scientific image analysis
Contributions:12 releases, 76 reviews, 225 commits in 1 year 2 months
image-analysispythondata-sciencehut23computer-vision
Seshat-Global-History-Databank/seshat_api
Sep 2024 - Feb 2025
A Python package for interacting with the Seshat API.
Contributions:1 release, 23 PRs, 92 pushes in 5 months
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