Scholar
Helen Parkinson
Google Scholar ID: WhoP3zwAAAAJ
European Bioinformatics Institute - Head of Knowledge Management Section, Senior Scientist
Citations & Impact
Citations
26,985
H-index
60
i10-index
123
Publications
20
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0
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- She is involved in several key scientific committees including being a member of the MRC Data Science Advisory Group, Deputy Chairperson of BBSRC Committee C, and Associate Director of Health Data Research UK Cambridge.
Research Experience
- Currently, she is the Head of the Knowledge Management Section at EMBL-EBI, leading the Samples, Phenotypes and Ontologies team, which delivers genomic resources and semantic tools. She participates extensively in external collaborations ranging from data analysis and generation projects to infrastructural integration projects. She is also one of the Co-chairs of the EMBL Human Ecosystem Transversal Theme.
Education
- Her PhD thesis examined the temperature compensation of circadian rhythms in Drosophila under Professor Bambos Kyriacou. As a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Leicester, she worked on the genetic basis of diseases such as Primary Pulmonary Hypertension and Hypophosphatasia.
Background
- Trained as a geneticist, her research interests include Drosophila biology, behavior, molecular biology, and medical genetics. Before joining EMBL-EBI, she focused on positional cloning to identify the causal gene for primary pulmonary hypertension. Her passion lies in semantic data integration and providing users with high-quality data at scale.
Miscellany
- If she ever goes back to the bench, it will be to work on an organism where forward and reverse genetics are tractable.
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