Nicky Nicolson
Fellow at Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNicky Nicolson is a senior research leader and software developer turned biodiversity informatics expert with 14 years of experience building scalable, open-science tooling for natural history collections. Based at Kew, she leads teams that curate and expose global taxonomic, nomenclatural and specimen data, having designed graph-based “names backbone” architectures and modernised IPNI infrastructure. She combines rigorous software practices—version control, dependency management and CI—with domain knowledge in botany and a PhD in machine learning to enable reproducible, high-impact data mobilisation and analysis. Active in the standards and community space, she now serves as a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow and TDWG outreach chair, bridging technical development, publishing workflows and global initiatives like the World Flora effort.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Botany, BSc (Hons), Botany at Royal Holloway, U. of LondonDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Machine learning, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Machine learning at Brunel University LondonMSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at University of Kent
Github Skills (200)
ecology10
data-wrangling10
wikidata10
crossword10
matching10
java10
biodiversity10
openrefine10
reconciliation10
jekyll10
sankey-diagram9
biodiversity-informatics9
nteract9
python9
data-manipulation9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
nickynicolson/nickynicolson.github.io
Nov 2015 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
echinopscis/echinopscis.github.io
Aug 2022 - Jul 2024
Contributions:154 pushes, 1 comment, 28 issues in 1 year 11 months
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