Nicholas Crawford
Novelist at Corey Press Inc.
Burlington, Vermont, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Crawford is a multidisciplinary creator and scientist with 15 years of experience bridging evolutionary genomics and storytelling. Trained with a PhD in Evolutionary Biology, he conducted postdoctoral research on phylogenomics and African population genomics using GWAS, WGS, and transcriptomics before transitioning to entrepreneurship and creative writing. Based in Burlington, Vermont, he now co-authors urban fantasy novels with his wife under the pen name C.N. Crawford while maintaining a background in computational biology and private code work. His unusual blend of deep lab and computational skills with narrative craft gives him a rare perspective on complex, data-driven stories and scientifically informed worldbuilding.
15 years of coding experience
BS, Biology, General, BS, Biology, General at Union CollegeMS, Evolutionary Biology, MS, Evolutionary Biology at San Diego State UniversityPhD, Evolutionary Biology, PhD, Evolutionary Biology at Boston University
English
Github Skills (20)
population-genetics9
genetics8
bioinformatics7
beta-testing7
discovery6
python6
distributed-computing6
pydata5
dask5
wasp5
datasets5
plink5
pipeline4
dask-distributed3
task-scheduler3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ngcrawford/RADnome
May 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:136 commits in 7 months
ngcrawford/CloudForest
Dec 2010 - Aug 2013
Contributions:146 commits in 2 years 8 months
bioinformaticscalculatedatasetsgenomicspecies-trees
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