Samantha Lycett
Professor at Roslin Institute
Roslin, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSamantha Lycett is a Professor of Pathogen Phylodynamics at the Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, with 13 years leading computational research into the evolution and spatial spread of animal and zoonotic pathogens. She combines Bayesian phylogenetics, machine learning and simulation to fuse pathogen sequence, environmental and host movement data to infer transmission networks, immune escape and virulence evolution. Her current work spans global avian influenza, rapidly evolving swine and cattle viruses, and SARS-CoV-2, and she plays a policy-facing role as an Early Warning Challenge lead for the EPIC consortium advising the Scottish Government. Trained originally in physics and semiconductor research, she brings quantitative signal-processing rigor to biological sequence analysis and method development. As a group leader and supervisor of multiple PhD students, she bridges technical innovation, applied epidemiology and real-time outbreak decision support.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Semiconductor Physics, PhD, Semiconductor Physics at Imperial College LondonMRes Bioinformatics, MRes Bioinformatics at Newcastle UniversityNatural Sciences, Physics, Natural Sciences, Physics at King's College, Cambridge
Github Skills (7)
modeling-tool7
agent-based-modeling7
conventions6
modeling6
java6
terraform5
kubernetes4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hxnx-sam/DiscreteSpatialPhyloSimulator
Jan 2014 - Jul 2018
Contributions:28 commits, 7 pushes, 2 comments in 4 years 6 months
EPICScotland/PhylodynamicDataSets
Dec 2013 - Mar 2017
Contributions:29 commits, 3 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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