Natalja Kurbatova
Head Of Data Science Team, Europe
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNatalja Kurbatova is a seasoned bioinformatics and data science leader with 12+ years building production-grade NGS analysis pipelines, dockerised workflows, and R/Bioconductor tooling across academia and industry. As Head of Data Science Team, Europe at Zifo and former Associate Principal Scientist at AstraZeneca, she has led complex knowledge-graph integration projects, ontology-driven disease annotation, and CRISPR/omics pipelines that translate experimental data into actionable insights. Her background at EMBL-EBI combines hands-on development, cloud-focused pipeline delivery, and project management, including securing AWS research grants and delivering cross-consortium software. Natalja pairs a PhD-level foundation in computer science with practical expertise in statistical methods and prediction algorithms, and she has a track record of producing reusable software—three R/Bioconductor packages and numerous dockerised pipelines—that quietly underpin larger collaborative efforts.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computational Science, Bachelor of Science Computational Science at University of LatviaDoctorate in Computer Science, Doctorate in Computer Science at Latvijas Universitate
English, Latvian, Russian, French
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Github Skills (4)
next-generation-sequencing4
pipeline2
docker2
shell2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mpi2/stats_working_group
Jul 2013 - Sep 2016
Contributions:159 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
natacourby/Disease_ontologies_for_knowledge_graphs
Aug 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:39 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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