About
Research Software for Infectious Disease Epidemiology - we are a team of 7 research software engineers working within the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis and the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London. ~
The team
Emma Russell
Emma started out coding laboratory process control for combinatorial chemistry, then survived several years in start-ups in the wild West Country before bringing her considerable web development expertise to RESIDE. Outside of work she spends time singing with two choirs and sometimes making stained glass.
Giovanni Charles
Giovanni is a computer scientist and health researcher. The former CTO of a health tech startup he now works with the malaria group at Imperial developing individual-based malaria models in C++ and R. Outside of tech, he paints, makes music, is a keen runner and occasional philosophy reader.
Anmol Thapar
Anmol is a software engineer who loves building clean UI/UX, scalable backends and robust infrastructure. He is all the way from New Zealand and outside of work loves basketball, snowboarding and the gym.
Rich FitzJohn
Rich was a computational biologist for 15 years before deciding that catalysing research through software was more fun than doing it himself. He's interested in making reproducibility easier and more accessible while letting scientists focus more on science than engineering. Outside of work he enjoys rock climbing and hiking.
Rob Ashton
Rob started his software career as a web developer in healthcare. He now writes code to try and assist researchers in managing, scaling and communicating their research code. When not in front of a screen Rob likes to spend his time running a scout group, riding his bike and thinking about pie barms.
Wes Hinsley
Wes is a computer engineer and scientist, with a Ph.D making tools for ocean modelling, and then moving to modelling epidemics. He enjoys problem solving, Advent Of Code, (especially on 40-year old hardware), and making interactive and graphical teaching games. By night, he plays music and squash, and makes very good tea.
Mantra Kusumgar
Mantra studied Mathematics at university and realised most of it won't be used again so he found more applicable addictions like coding in his spare time. Other addictions include but are not limited to: chess, basketball, K-pop, anime, origami, dancing, acting, escape rooms and much much more!
