I am currently the Data Management Coordinator in the Data Science Centre at EMBL, ensuring the efficient handling, storage, and accessibility of their scientific data.
My previous life was managing a small (but powerful) team of imaging experts at The Jackson Laboratory, a biomedical research nonprofit. We worked on institution-wide imaging support: think more “how do we get tool X to work in our environment” or “how do we teach people the best way to apply deep learning methods to their images”, less “we will develop a custom tool for your specific research project”. Our team was 100% focused on supporting open-source tools.
What does that mean in practice?
A lot of my time is dedicated to OME efforts, a consortium/community of like-minded folks developing standards and tools for open-source microscopy data. A (different) lot of my time is dedicated to training people on how to use open-source image analysis/data management tools. The part of the job I enjoy the most is talking to faculty and researchers about what they need, and how to support them.
Here are some projects I have been working on:
- ezomero is a convenience-layer library to interact with OMERO servers using Python. I am currently the main developer and maintainer.
- omero-cli-transfer is a utility tool for transfering data between OMERO servers, preserving hierarchies, annotations and regions of interest. I am also the main developer and maintainer.
What else do I do?
- I spend a lot of time on forum.image.sc answering people’s questions and learning from other people’s answers.
- I’m part of the Curriculum Advisory Committee for the Image Processing curriculum at The Carpentries and of the BINA Image Informatics Working Group.
- I co-organized the first two editions of the Northeast Bioimage Analysis Meeting at The Jackson Laboratory.
- I was one of the co-organizers of the OME 2025 Community Meeting together with a whole lot of incredible people.
