Steven Kelly
Chief Scientific Officer at Wild Bioscience
Greater Oxford Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Kelly is a plant science leader and translational researcher with over a decade of academic and executive experience, currently serving as Chief Scientific Officer at the Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford and Executive Director of the Plant Biology Institute. As a Professor at the University of Oxford and co-founder of Wild Bioscience, he bridges fundamental plant biology with entrepreneurial translation and publication leadership, having served as Editor in Chief of Biology Open. Trained at Trinity College Dublin and holding a D.Phil from Oxford, he combines deep expertise in genetics and plant sciences with a track record of building research teams and founding biotech initiatives. Notably, he has maintained continuous academic leadership since 2008 while steering a startup focused on bringing lab insights to real-world applications. Colleagues describe him as a strategic scientist who pairs rigorous experimentation with practical commercialization instincts.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
D.Phil, D.Phil at University of OxfordBachelor of Science (B.S.), Human Genetics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Human Genetics at Trinity College, Dublin
Github Skills (15)
bioinformatics10
genomics10
population-genetics10
inference10
meta-analysis10
taxonomy10
comparative-genomics10
phylogenetics10
genes4
heterogeneous3
datasets3
clustering3
leader3
genomes2
consensus2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SteveKellyLab/geCAI
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
SteveKellyLab/OrthoFinder
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:8 pushes in 1 day
groupsgenomesolvingbiasesinference
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