Summary
Maria Novosolov is a Lead Data Scientist based in Copenhagen with over a decade of experience turning complex biological and ecological datasets into actionable insights. She combines deep domain expertise from academic population genomics with pragmatic software engineering—authoring and maintaining multiple production-grade R packages and bioinformatic workflows. Maria has a proven track record of translating research code into scalable tools, optimizing performance, and mentoring teams to adopt reproducible, tested pipelines. Her background includes building databases on AWS RDS, Shiny apps for stakeholders, and managing multi-disciplinary projects and reporting for monthly stakeholder updates. She is equally comfortable designing statistical models and shipping maintainable code, an unusual hybrid that bridges science and production analytics. Colleagues value her curiosity-driven approach, meticulous attention to detail, and ability to communicate complex results to both experts and non-specialists.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 98, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 98 at Tel Aviv University
English, Hebrew, Russian