Summary
Isabel Fenton is a Research Data Scientist at the Alan Turing Institute with 10 years’ experience applying quantitative tools to paleoclimate and biodiversity questions. She holds a PhD from Imperial College London and built a harmonised database of over 500,000 plankton records used broadly by the community, linking fossil occurrences to paleoclimate model outputs. Proficient in R, Python and Git, she combines statistical modelling, large-scale data curation and automated morphometric workflows to test how climate and evolution interact across millions of years. Based in Oxford, she brings field sampling and imaging experience (NanoCT/Avizo) together with reproducible computational pipelines, and has a track record of making complex paleo datasets widely reusable.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Environmental controls on planktonic foraminiferal diversity in ancient and modern oceans, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Environmental controls on planktonic foraminiferal diversity in ancient and modern oceans at Imperial College London
MSci, Natural Sciences (Earth Sciences), 2.1, MSci, Natural Sciences (Earth Sciences), 2.1 at University of Cambridge