Gordon Webster
Partner at Amber Biology LLC
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGordon Webster is a Cambridge-based partner and computational life science entrepreneur with over a decade of experience translating complex R&D data into actionable insight for universities, pharma, and startups. Trained as a biophysicist (PhD, University of London) and seasoned in both academic and commercial labs, he builds custom algorithms, software, and causal models to probe and simulate biological systems. He founded Amber Biology to operate at the intersection of science and computation, earning a NASA Silver Achievement Medal for work on the TESS mission and supporting clients across the U.S. and Europe. Known for combining rigorous scientific intuition with pragmatic engineering, he helps teams move from voluminous data to testable hypotheses and decision-ready outputs.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc(hons) Biomolecular Science, Molecular Biophysics, B.Sc(hons) Biomolecular Science, Molecular Biophysics at University of PortsmouthPh.D., Biophysics, Ph.D., Biophysics at University of London
English, French
Github Skills (16)
bioinformatics9
genomics8
computational-biology7
python6
structural-biology5
bezier5
systems-biology5
open-source5
pdb-files4
computational-chemistry3
javascript3
threejs3
sbml2
modeling2
biology2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
amberbiology/py4lifesci
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:20 commits, 20 pushes in 1 day
gwebster/pypop
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
bioinformaticspythonpopulation-genomicsgenomics
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