Simon Cox
Consultant at Timely Logic
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolSimon Cox is a consultant and environmental informatics specialist with 14 years focused on distributed architectures and information standards for geoscience and water data. A seasoned research scientist formerly with CSIRO Land and Water, he has deep domain expertise in environmental data interoperability and has led international standards work for the Open Geospatial Consortium and ISO geographic information committees. His career spans academia, government research and international agencies, including a fellowship at the OGC and a grant placement at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre. Simon combines hands-on technical design with policy and community leadership—having served on advisory groups like the Research Data Alliance and Australia’s Linked Data Working Group—to translate complex scientific data into interoperable, production-ready systems. Based in Melbourne, he brings a rare blend of geophysics training (PhD Columbia) and practical experience in building standards-driven, distributed environmental information systems.
14 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Structural Geology and Rock Mechanics, Master of Science - MS Structural Geology and Rock Mechanics at Imperial College LondonBachelor of Arts - BA Geological Sciences, Bachelor of Arts - BA Geological Sciences at University of CambridgePhD Geophysics, PhD Geophysics at Columbia University
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Github Skills (200)
ecology10
digital-humanities10
json-schema10
ontology10
semantic-web10
terminology10
data-management10
shacl10
spatial10
earth-science10
owl10
bitrix10
quantities10
schema10
environmental10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
CGI-IUGS/timescale-ont
Jul 2017 - Nov 2020
OWL ontology for geologic timescale
Contributions:35 commits, 5 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 years 3 months
owl-ontologyowlevesemanticstimescale
CSIRO-enviro-informatics/geosparql-ext-ont
Jul 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:53 commits, 10 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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