Melissa Harrison
Group Team Leader at European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI
Ely, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMelissa Harrison is a publishing and operations leader with over two decades in STM publishing and more than a decade leading production and technology teams. Currently Group Team Leader at EMBL-EBI, she combines deep workflow and supplier management expertise with hands-on product ownership and a strong commitment to open science. She has driven automation initiatives—from Word-to-XML conversion to API deliveries and automated validation—that cut effort and improved metadata quality, helping organisations like eLife become top Crossref metadata providers. A proven community builder and standards advocate, she founded and ran JATS4R and has served on Crossref and other industry working groups. Trained in biological sciences, Melissa brings both scientific literacy and pragmatic process design to bridge researchers, vendors, and engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Interpersonal Communication Skills, Certificate, Interpersonal Communication Skills at Birkbeck, University of LondonBachelor of Science - BS, Biological Sciences (specialisation parasitology), 2.1, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biological Sciences (specialisation parasitology), 2.1 at King's College London
English
Github Skills (57)
continuum10
kitchen10
xslt9
xquery9
visual-editor9
sink9
xml-schema9
schematron9
xml9
pubmed8
paw8
react7
open-access7
nlp7
machine-learning6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
elifesciences/elife-pubmed-feed
Jan 2015 - Jan 2021
code to support uploading feeds to pubmed for POA articles and VOR articles
Contributions:5 pushes, 90 comments, 48 issues in 6 years
feedspoauploadingpubmedvor
microsimulation/ijm-xml
Jul 2018 - Oct 2019
XML files for the International Journal of Microsimulation
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
journalxmlxml-filesmicrosimulation
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