Robert Free
Lecturer In Health Data Science
Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Free is a lecturer in Health Data Science and Director of Informatics at the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, bringing nine years of focused experience translating AI and machine learning into clinical decision-support tools. With a PhD in Molecular Microbiology and a background spanning molecular genetics, bioinformatics and clinical research informatics, he specialises in integrating heterogeneous data sources—including genomics, clinical records and mobile health streams—into reproducible analytical pipelines. At the University of Leicester he has led development of bioinformatics platforms and bespoke research informatics tools (notably maintaining published repositories via @rcfgroup), combining hands-on software engineering with domain-driven study recruitment and data management solutions. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, open-source-savvy implementations that bridge research and clinical needs, and he has a track record of adapting existing tools as well as building custom systems to meet specific BRU requirements.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Molecular Genetics in Biotechnology, 2:1, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Molecular Genetics in Biotechnology, 2:1 at Sussex UniversityPhD (Molecular Microbiology), PhD (Molecular Microbiology) at University of Leicester
Github Skills (26)
clojurescript8
health8
knowledge-graph8
graph8
markdown8
org-mode8
trello7
collaboration6
health-data6
clojure6
knowledge-management6
statistics6
yaml5
privacy5
python5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rcfgroup/labpipe
Sep 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 2 months
rcfgroup/headfake
May 2021 - Sep 2024
Health data faker tool which generates data based on a YAML template
Contributions:8 PRs, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
health-datahealthfaker-datafakeryaml-template
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