Nessa Carson
Associate Principal Scientist Digital Champion
Macclesfield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNessa Carson is an Associate Principal Scientist and "Digital Champion" in Pharmaceutical Sciences with eight years’ experience applying high-throughput experimentation, automation and data engineering to accelerate reaction optimization from discovery to process. She blends hands-on expertise with lab automation platforms (Chemspeed, Quantos, Formulatrix, Andrew Alliance, etc.) and self-taught Python/R skills to build bespoke interactive visualizations and automated workflows that free chemists from repetitive tasks. A regular invited speaker and advisor (DeepMatter, C&EN) who has led global data and CAPEX initiatives, she excels at translating cross-functional needs into practical data architectures using SQL and Snowflake. Unusually for a bench scientist, she has been sole operator of an automation lab, running up to two bespoke plates per day while managing equipment maintenance and LIMS integrations. Her public-facing activities—editing, writing, organizing retrosynthesis and automation conferences, and curating web resources—underscore a talent for communicating complex chemistry-data stories to diverse audiences.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MChem, Chemistry, MChem, Chemistry at University of OxfordUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
German, Swedish, English, French
Github Skills (23)
cheminformatics10
python9
rdkit9
python-requests8
http7
github-api7
api6
github-bot6
rss6
javascript6
http-client5
windows4
github4
chemistry3
wsl23
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
supersciencegrl/chemistry-scripts
Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
supersciencegrl/website-tools
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:32 commits, 77 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
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