Maxwell Farrell
Lecturer at University of Glasgow
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMaxwell Farrell is a lecturer and researcher based in Glasgow who bridges biodiversity, infectious disease ecology, and computational methods, with a decade of experience across academia in North America and the UK. His work spans theoretical method development, large-scale data synthesis using text mining and NLP, and analysis of global host–parasite interaction databases to improve surveillance of emerging cross-species infections. He progressed from a PhD at McGill to postdoctoral roles at the Odum School and University of Toronto before joining the University of Glasgow as Lecturer, demonstrating a steady trajectory from hands-on ecological data analysis to leading computational research and teaching. Maxwell’s background in both applied consultancy for bio-inspired engineering and co-editing a journal special issue signals an ability to translate interdisciplinary science into practical tools and scholarly impact.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biology at McGill University
English, French
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Github Skills (92)
bioconductor9
microbiome9
rstanarm9
bioinformatics9
biomedical9
taxonomy8
metagenomics8
rstan8
r-package8
virus7
stan7
nlp7
pipeline6
missing-data6
jags6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
maxfarrell/CamTrappeR
May 2016 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 release, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
maxfarrell/eDNAcamtrap
Nov 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 6 pushes, 2 tags in 1 year 9 months
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