Dr Jemma Pilcher Email & Phone Number

Berlin, Germany

Berlin, Germany

Building data collection tools in Python, such as web scraping programs, for an organisationdeveloping open-source inventory management and geospatial logistics applications.

London Area, United Kingdom

◆ Collaborated with four other early-career data scientists to develop a natural languageprocessing (NLP) project for the German international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, to addressgender bias in their content.◆ Built two Python pipelines to predict the ratio of the number of men to women mentioned intheir German and Hindi articles.◆ Evaluated the performances of individual models and the full pipelines, and constructed thefinal pipelines to give the best precision, recall and F1 scores.◆ Applied agile project management to deliver the project in five weeks.

◆ Constructed and managed interactive online courses, for university and corporate clients.◆ Collaborated with a team of designers and content writers to create engaging learning andtraining materials, for efficient onboarding of new employees to the company.

United Kingdom

◆ Analysed, interpreted and visualised data about the media performance of corporate clients and synthesised the information into written reports.◆ Informed the clients of the impact their business activities and press releases were having ontheir media coverage, and the sentiment at which they were being reported.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

◆ Researched the pathological processes underlying stroke and Alzheimer’s disease.◆ Gained domain knowledge from reviewing the scientific literature, and designed andconducted experiments for hypothesis testing based on our research questions.◆ Collected and managed biological data, including high-magnification microscope images ofbrain tissue, to quantify the damage to neurons, synapses, blood vessels, and glial cells.◆ Used specialised software for data analysis and applied statistical tests for results interpretation.◆ Communicated my research in technical and lay written reports and conference presentations.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

◆ Provided technical and teaching support for laboratory experiments for undergraduate courses.◆ Led tutorials and facilitated discussion groups to help students understand the course material, as well as marking assignments and giving constructive feedback.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

◆ Provided technical support for events at British Science Week, Edinburgh International Science Festival, and the Bio-Design Lab hosted by the ASCUS Lab, an open-source art and biology laboratory in Edinburgh.◆ Assisted participants with histology and microscopy experiments.

London, England, United Kingdom

◆ Developed a synthetic biology project with a small team of fellow undergraduate students from Imperial College London for the iGEM competition, in which we engineered E.Coli to efficiently produce and degrade a bio-plastic, P3HB, with plans to scale the system to industrial levels.◆ Conducted biochemistry experiments to demonstrate the functioning of our engineered E.Coli.◆ Presented our team project at the competition finale at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the Kresge Auditorium. We were awarded the prizes for Best Manufacturing Project and Second Runner Up.◆ Communicated our project to a lay audience in an interview with Dr Adam Rutherford for BBC Radio 4's Inside Science, and ran public workshops at Dublin Science Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum.◆ Wrote accessible, scientific content for our project webpage and in an article for Materials World Magazine.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Neuroscience

Master Of Science - Ms, Integrative Neuroscience

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biochemistry, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Fencing, Ballroom Dancing, Fine Art, Felix Student Newspaper, iGEM competition