Ed Sykes
Chief Communications Officer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolEd Sykes is a communications leader with 12 years' experience translating complex, politicised and controversial science for public, media and policy audiences, now serving as Chief Communications Officer at UK Biobank. He has shaped sector-wide standards—most notably a labelling system for medical research press releases—and repeatedly steered media narratives during crises from Ebola to mental-health controversies. Comfortable at the intersection of science, government and the press, he has a track record of influencing policy, advising government committees and rebuilding organisational reputations. A PhD-trained evolutionary biologist, he combines deep subject-matter credibility with practical crisis and stakeholder management, and brings uncommon experience moving contentious research from obscurity to constructive public debate.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Evolutionary Biology, PhD, Evolutionary Biology at The University of EdinburghMBiolSci, Zoology, MBiolSci, Zoology at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (37)
jenkins-api-plugin10
docker10
server-side-api10
jenkins-plugin10
jenkins10
remoting10
grunt-task9
packer8
python-client7
api7
vagrant7
server-side7
macos6
homebrew6
nodejs6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
1self/api
Mar 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:324 commits, 2 PRs, 179 pushes in 2 years
apijavascriptexpressserver-side-apiserves
1self/noise
Oct 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:64 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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