Emma Karoune
Principal Investigator
Greater Portsmouth Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolEmma Karoune is a Principal Investigator and community-focused research leader who builds capacity in biomedical data science, AI, and open scholarship across academic and policy settings. She leads the MRC-funded Advancing Biomedical Data Science Careers project at The Alan Turing Institute while co-founding RCM Cooperative to support equitable, resilient collaborative research. With a background as an archaeobotanist (PhD, UCL) and experience in education, she uniquely blends domain research, pedagogy and practical stewardship of data and people. Emma has led high-profile initiatives such as the FAIR Phytolith Project and contributed technical documentation and community workflows to the widely used The Turing Way open-source guide. She is a Software Sustainability Institute and ELIXIR-UK fellow who mentors through Open Life Science and helps professionalise data roles in research. Her work often surfaces less-visible infrastructure: shaping contributor processes, reproducible practices and skills frameworks that make data science teams more effective.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), BioArchaeology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), BioArchaeology at University of BradfordPGCE in Secondary Education, Secondary Sciences specialising on A-level Biology, PGCE in Secondary Education, Secondary Sciences specialising on A-level Biology at Kingston UniversityUniversity College London
Arabic
Github Skills (6)
bash10
script10
documentation10
technical-writing10
co9
data-science6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
the-turing-way/the-turing-way
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Host repository for The Turing Way: a how to guide for reproducible data science
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Community Contributor
Technical Writer & Community ContributorContributions:165 reviews, 475 commits, 64 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Emma primarily contributed to the project by modifying and updating documentation files and scripts, as well as adjusting project setup and contributor processes. This included updating the contributors list by modifying bash scripts, and updating contributing project information. The user also adjusted CSS and Javascript files, demonstrating a knowledge of how the website files were constructed. These updates improved the project's organization and contributor processes, making it easier for contributors to add and update the existing material.
how-to-guidesciencehut23-270hostdata-science
open-phytoliths/ICOPS-training
Mar 2022 - Apr 2023
This is a repository of the training material from workshops and other training events organised and run by the International Committee on Open Phytolith Science.
Contributions:2 releases, 10 reviews, 9 PRs in 1 year 1 month
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