I joined EPCC as an Applications Consultant in 2021 alongside writing up my PhD Thesis in ‘Data Science for Health Technology Assessment’ at the University of Edinburgh’s Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre. This project is part of the Edinburgh Cancer Information Modernisation Programme with the overarching goal as to further advance health data intelligence capacity building in the region.
Robert Nagy
Applications Consultant
Before joining EPCC I was working as a Teaching Assistant at both the University’s Medical School and the Business School.
Prior starting the PhD, I gathered skills from a broad range of disciplines. First, completed my BSc in Molecular Bionics Engineering (with Medical Biotechnology orientation) back in Budapest. During my undergraduate years, I was heavily involved in Neuroscience research at the Institute of Experimental Medicine at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2014 I joined the Nano-Biotechnology Research Lab at Semmelweis University’s Department of Biophysics and Radiation Biology for a Dissertation project, where I was continued working as a Departmental Engineer after graduation.
In 2017 I completed a Data Science for Business Master’s Programme at Stirling University where I nailed a Summer Consultancy Dissertation project at NHS NSS in natural language processing in breast cancer pathology. In 2019 I started engaging with Edinburgh Carpentries and the Software Sustainability Institute first as an attendee of carpentries workshops, then, from 2020 as a helper and later as a qualified Data Carpentry instructor.
As an Applications Consultant, my primary interests are centred around health data, biomedical and life sciences, and respective IT systems and services.