Francis Atkinson
Senior Scientist at Roche
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolFrancis Atkinson is a senior scientist and cheminformatician with 12+ years in drug discovery and computational toxicology, now based in Cambridge and currently at Roche. He has led cheminformatics and product work across industry and academia—helping build scalable, Kubernetes-backed docking and ligand-preparation platforms at Exscientia and the CCDC, and supporting phenotypic hit expansion at Recursion. His strengths span structure-based modelling, automation of 3D workflows, data curation and standards, and integrating physics-based methods into production pipelines. Unusually for a cheminformatics specialist, he combines a PhD in synthetic organometallic chemistry with formal training in IT and statistics, enabling a pragmatic bridge between chemistry, software engineering and data science.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Statistics, Diploma, Statistics at The Open UniversityM.Sc., Information Technology, M.Sc., Information Technology at University of GlasgowPh.D., Synthetic Organometallic Chemistry, Ph.D., Synthetic Organometallic Chemistry at University of Bristol
Github Skills (3)
bioinformatics9
codebase2
virtual-machine1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
flatkinson/tox_models
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
flatkinson/standardiser
Oct 2013 - Nov 2018
Molecular standardisation tool
Contributions:2 releases, 46 commits, 1 PR in 5 years 1 month
bioinformaticsmolecularstandardisation
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