Kamilla Kopec-Harding

Kamilla Kopec-Harding is a Senior Research Data Scientist at the University of Birmingham's Advanced Research Computing department, funded by the Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Government (CAIG). She holds an MSci in Chemistry and Pharmacology from the University of Birmingham and a PhD in computational chemistry from the University of Manchester. Her career includes roles as a Research Assistant in the Manchester Asthma and Allergy Study, Scientist/Health Data Manager at the Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, and Research Software Engineer at the University of Manchester (2019–2023).

• Education:
• MSci in Chemistry and Pharmacology, University of Birmingham
• PhD in Computational Chemistry, University of Manchester

Her research interests span data science, interdisciplinary collaboration (e.g., Computer Science and Earth Sciences), and health data management. She specializes in using R and Python for data wrangling, visualization, and analysis. Kamilla actively contributes to computational education through Carpentries-style workshops, teaching R, Unix shell, and Git.

She leads projects in research software engineering and data science, emphasizing reproducibility and open science practices. Her work bridges academic disciplines to enable data-driven discoveries.

Labs/Teams: Research Software Group at the University of Birmingham.