Zoey Werbin
Ecological Data Scientist
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZoey Werbin is an ecological data scientist with eight years of experience applying Bayesian statistics, state-space dynamic models, and genome-scale metabolic modeling to soil microbial and biogeochemical questions. She earned a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Boston University and has a track record securing competitive research funding, delivering dozens of conference talks, and translating complex models into actionable forecasts of carbon and nitrogen cycling across U.S. soils. Zoey blends hands-on bioinformatics and machine learning—built from work on metagenomics pipelines and NASA data QA—to tackle questions from microbe- to ecosystem-scale, and she’s led research teams and mentored students in academic and national lab settings. Now based in Boston and currently at Funga, she pairs deep domain expertise with pragmatic software and statistical tooling, and is an enthusiastic proponent of Bayesian approaches to ecological inference.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Biology, General, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Biology, General at Swarthmore CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Boston University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (98)
nmf10
biodiversity10
systems-biology9
taxonomy9
kraken9
computational-biology9
bioinformatics9
sequence9
biology9
classification9
microbiome8
sbml8
datasets7
metabolic-models7
constraint7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
zoey-rw/microbialForecasts
Apr 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:62 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
zoey-rw/NEFI_microbe
Sep 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:264 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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