Hannah Ritchie
Senior Researcher at University of Edinburgh
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHannah Ritchie is a senior researcher and data-driven sustainability specialist based in Edinburgh with eight years of interdisciplinary experience bridging academia, policy, and product-focused research. She combines deep environmental science training (PhD work on sustainable protein pathways and an MSc in Carbon Management) with applied roles at Oxford and Our World in Data, where she leads research and editing on global development and environmental datasets. Hannah also contributes front-end improvements to high-impact open-source tools like the owid-grapher, enhancing data navigation and accessibility for complex topics such as COVID, energy, and biodiversity. Her background includes commercialising biotechnology through integrated bio-refinery concepts and advising on nitrogen-use efficiency, demonstrating an uncommon blend of systems-level scientific insight and practical business development. Colleagues rely on her ability to translate rigorous analysis into engaging public-facing outputs that inform policy and consumer understanding.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
MSc Carbon Management (Distinction), MSc Carbon Management (Distinction) at The University of EdinburghSenior Researcher, Senior Researcher at University of Oxford
Github Skills (8)
data-visualizations10
typescript10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
owid/owid-grapher
Aug 2020 - Apr 2022
A platform for creating interactive data visualizations
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 8 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Hannah primarily focused on updating the site's subnavigation menu within the `owid-grapher` repository. Their work involved adding, modifying, and reorganizing links and pages related to various data visualizations, including COVID, energy, forests, biodiversity, and water. They also introduced new data explorer sections and corrected navigation URLs, demonstrating a focus on improving the user experience and data accessibility. The changes were implemented in TypeScript and React.
graph-analysisreactmemgraphgraphsvisualizations
owid/owid-content
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:525 commits, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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