Luke Thompson
Research Professor at NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
Miami, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolLuke Thompson is a marine microbial ecologist and bioinformatician with 12 years of research experience translating coastal and ocean microbiome data into actionable science for NOAA. Based in Miami, he has progressed from postdoctoral roles at UC San Diego, Colorado, and KAUST to leadership positions at NOAA, culminating in his current appointment as Research Professor. He combines field expertise in marine sampling with strong computational skills—authoring practical Python/Pandas notebooks for data analysis and contributing reproducible workflows to open-source projects. Luke’s work bridges fundamental microbiology and operational oceanography, enabling improved ecosystem monitoring and management. Notably, his background with Rob Knight’s labs and international postdocs gives him a rare mix of deep microbial ecology training and scalable bioinformatics practice.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Microbiology, PhD, Microbiology at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBS, Biological Sciences, BS, Biological Sciences at Stanford University
German, Portuguese, English
Github Skills (8)
data-visualizations10
pandas10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
python10
matplotlib10
data-analysis10
jupyter-notebook9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cuttlefishh/python-for-data-analysis
Nov 2016 - Oct 2019
An introduction to data science using Python and Pandas with Jupyter notebooks
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:220 commits, 2 PRs, 202 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Luke's commits focused on the introduction and application of data analysis concepts using Python and the Pandas library. They implemented basic Python syntax and data types, explored data loading and manipulation techniques, and demonstrated data visualization methods using Matplotlib. Furthermore, the user developed a sample survey notebook demonstrating these skills.
seabornpythonjupyter-notebookplotsscience
biocore/emp
Dec 2015 - Jun 2021
Code repository of the Earth Microbiome Project.
Contributions:1 release, 224 commits, 78 PRs in 5 years 7 months
ncbiearthcode-repositorymicrobiometaxonomy
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