Philip Leftwich
Associate Professor Of Genetics & Data Science
Norwich, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPhilip Leftwich is an Associate Professor of Genetics & Data Science at the University of East Anglia with nine years’ experience bridging academic research and practical applications in insect pest management, gene editing and transgenics. He designs and teaches undergraduate and master’s modules in genetics, genomics and applied data science, and runs bespoke statistics and programming workshops for postgraduate researchers and industry clients. Philip has led Wellcome-funded projects and managed translational research programmes at The Pirbright Institute, giving him strong project coordination and consultancy experience. Comfortable with both wet-lab genetics and computational workflows, he is known for integrating data science into biological curricula and for developing accessible CPD resources in maths and statistics.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Zoology/Animal Biology, Bachelor's degree, Zoology/Animal Biology at Durham UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biology, General, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biology, General at University of East Anglia
Github Skills (7)
r-package7
jekyll5
r4
skim3
nas2
seo2
markdown1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Philip-Leftwich/Philip-Leftwich.github.io
May 2020 - Feb 2024
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:458 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 8 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
Philip-Leftwich/physalia-lectures-intro-stats
Aug 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:6 PRs, 38 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 6 months
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