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.
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.
- 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.
- 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, the BINA Image Informatics Working Group and the Image Data Management Working Group at Global Bioimaging.
- I co-organized the first two editions of the Northeast Bioimage Analysis Meeting at The Jackson Laboratory, and the OME 2025 and OME 2026 Community Meetings in Woods Hole, MA and Düsseldorf, Germany, respectively.
- I am a topic editor (Biomedical Engineering, Biosciences, Chemistry, and Materials) for the Journal of Open Source Software.