Peter Skelsey
Research Leader at The James Hutton Institute
Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPeter Skelsey is a Research Leader and computational epidemiologist based in Dundee with eight years of focused experience translating data mining, AI/ML, GIS and simulation modelling into actionable policy tools. He has designed and implemented five national early warning systems now used by Scottish and UK governments, and currently leads multiple strategic research themes and a principal project on pest and disease epidemiology under Scotland’s 2022–2027 programme. Equally at home in academic and government-facing roles, he has a strong track record of securing competitive funding, supervising PhD students, and publishing peer-reviewed science. A PhD-trained spatial epidemiologist, Peter combines practical decision-support tool development with interdisciplinary leadership across climate change, integrated pest management and surveillance systems—often turning complex spatial data into operational forecasts.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Epidemiological Modelling, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Epidemiological Modelling at Wageningen University & Research
Github Skills (4)
jupyter-notebook8
jupyter7
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jupyterlab6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pskelsey/4C-Lite-model
Feb 2020 - Mar 2021
A desktop app for performing climate change risk assessments in real crop locations in Scotland
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 122 pushes in 1 year
climatecropriskassessmentsdesktop
pskelsey/4C-model
Nov 2017 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 release, 287 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 4 months
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