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September 2012: Volume 17 Issue 3

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New Staff

Pratyusha Doddapaneni

Pratyusha Doddapaneni

Pratyusha is working on a collaboration project (REDIC) between EDINA and the Digital Library. She worked as a System Software Engineer at IBM and research assistant at University of Edinburgh over the last four years, completing her postgraduate degree from the university.

David Girdwood

David Girdwood

David has joined the Data Library team. He gained a PhD in molecular biology, and worked as a life scientist in various academic organisations, including the Scripps Research Institute, MRC Human Genetics Unit as well as the University of Edinburgh.

Mhairi O’Hara

Mhairi O’Hara

Mhairi is joining EDINA as a GIS Technician for the Geo Services Team. She recently completed the GIS MSc at Edinburgh University, and has worked for the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, British Waterways, National Grid and Transport for Scotland.

William Petit

William PetitWilliam joined EDINA as a Software Engineer in the Bibliographic and Multimedia team. He previously worked four years for Sun Microsystems as Software Engineer in a team mainly involved in diagnostics and product testing.

Chris Yocum

Chris YocumChris is Technical Support for the RepNet team. He has a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in early medieval Ireland and has been a visiting research fellow at the School of Informatics; his work experience includes time at Microsoft and Amazon.com.