Neil Saunders

Current

• Statistical Bioinformatician at CSIRO

Past

• Research Officer at University of Queensland
• Postdoctoral Fellow at University of New South Wales
• ARC Postdoctoral Fellow at University of New South Wales

• Vice-Chancellors Research Fellow at University of New South Wales
• Marie Curie Research Fellow at Free University of Amsterdam

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Education

• University of Oxford
• The University of Edinburgh

Connections

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Industry

Research

Websites

• My Blog
• Nature Network Profile
• My RSS feed

Neil Saunders’s Summary

I work at the interface of the life sciences and computer science.

Neil Saunders’s Specialties:

My specialty is the acquisition, processing and interpretation of large, diverse scientific datasets using open-source software.

Neil Saunders’s Experience

• Statistical Bioinformatician

  CSIRO

  (Government Agency; Research industry)

  February 2009 — Present (10 months)

  I work for CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences.

• Research Officer

  University of Queensland

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  April 2006 — February 2009 (2 years 11 months)

  Research officer in bioinformatics

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  University of New South Wales

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

  April 2005 — April 2006 (1 year 1 month)

  Researcher in microbial genomics and computational biology

• ARC Postdoctoral Fellow

  University of New South Wales

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

  April 2002 — April 2005 (3 years 1 month)

  Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship

• Vice-Chancellors Research Fellow

  University of New South Wales

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

  April 2000 — April 2002 (2 years 1 month)

  A UNSW research fellowship to work on microbial genomics

• Marie Curie Research Fellow

  Free University of Amsterdam

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

  January 1998 — December 2000 (3 years )

  Two year Marie Curie EU Fellowship to work on microbial genetics and biochemistry at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, NL

Neil Saunders’s Education

• University of Oxford

  D. Phil. , Biochemistry , 1993 — 1997

  Funded by a Wellcome Trust Postgraduate Studentship

  Activities and Societies:

  President, Oxford University Biochemistry Society, 1994-1996

• The University of Edinburgh

  BSc , Biochemistry , 1989 — 1993

  First class Honours degree in Biological Sciences (Biochemistry)

  Activities and Societies:

  Edinburgh University Mountaineering Club, 1989-1993

Additional Information

Neil Saunders’s Websites:

• My Blog
• Nature Network Profile
• My RSS feed

Neil Saunders’s Interests:

Bioinformatics, computational biology, open science, web applications, social networks, web 2.0, photography, diving, hiking,

Neil Saunders’s Groups:

Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,International Society for Computational Biology

•    Computational Biology
•    Bioinformatics geeks
•    The R Project for Statistical Computing
•    "friendfeed" friends
•    The Biogang
•    FriendFeed Life Scientists
•    Wikidot
•    ISCB - International Society for Computational Biology

Neil Saunders’s Contact Settings

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