Alex Jackson Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Australia

I create custom mathematics, algorithms, and reproducible analyses in R to solve complex problems. My expertise includes:- survey sampling, weighting, and analysis, including VISTA, PATHS, Hobart, and ACT Household Travel Surveys- survey design, survival analysis, and mortality estimation for wind farm post-construction monitoring- collision risk modelling at wind farms- generalised linear mixed modelling, particularly in the environmental management and transport spaces- design and development of Symbolix's Twin Cities digital twin product- exploratory and confirmatory data analysis- mapping and spatial data analysis- creating reproducible RMarkdown and Bookdown reports- R package contribution and development- technical and scientific communication

Data cleaning, manipulation and statistical analysis in R, including descriptive statistics, clustering methods, mixed effects modelling, survival analysis, Monte Carlo simulations, and text mining. Preparation of documents for clients. Creation of Shiny dashboards.

- Marking and providing feedback/explanations to first-year statistics students- Working under short deadlines

- Assessed effectiveness of a model used to find population dynamics of species, in a team of three.- Used simulated and real data to determine relationships between the model error and data properties.- Created R scripts to extract data from large numbers of files and determine error.- Used Python to manipulate data- Cleaned data, fitted multiple regression and mixed effects models.- Used LaTeX to write a background report on the underlying mathematics.- Worked on scripts to simulate and model large numbers of experimental conditions on a supercomputer.

University Of Adelaide

- Worked towards developing porous solids for catalysis.- Successfully synthesised three N-heterocyclic carbene precursors. Confirmed purity via NMR spectroscopy.- Synthesised a new cobalt-based 1-dimensional metal-organic framework and determined its structure by X-ray crystallography.- Prepared chemical risk assessments.- Presented work in a poster seminar to academics, and in a journal-style report.

University Of Adelaide

- Synthesised switchable fluorescent molecules for hydrogen peroxide and pH sensing applications in a biological setting.- Successfully synthesised fluorescent molecules under inert conditions.- Purified products by flashed column chromatography.- Confirmed purity by 1-D and 2-D NMR spectroscopy.

Bachelor’S Degree, Statistics And Chemistry

Expected completion July 2016 Grade point average: 6.792 out of 7 Received the Faculty of Sciences Outstanding Academic Achievement Award.

Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Weekend and knockout cricket teams (2008-2012), concert band (2011).ATAR: 98.05