Thursday, October 11, 2007

Employment history

Consultant

Starting from Fall 2008 to the present, I have been working on the TreeBASE project as an outside consultant for the University of Pennsylvania.


Visiting scientist

From January to August 2007 I worked as a visiting scientist at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin).


Research assistant, postdoctoral fellow

Starting from January 2004 to the present, I have been working at the University of British Columbia, as an international collaborator on the CIPRES project, contributing to architecture and database design.


Research assistant

From January 2001 through August 2006 I have worked intermittently as a research assistant at Simon Fraser University on a number of projects involving phylogenetic inference.


Educational software developer

From June through December 2000 I worked at BioMedia, in web development and software design for life sciences education.


Educational software developer

From June through September 1999 I worked at the Amsterdam Science and Technology Education Laboratory (AMSTEL institute ) where I developed an educational CD-ROM on mitosis and meiosis visualized using 3D microscope photography.


Research assistant

From September 1998 through June 1999 I worked at the Institute for Systematics and Population Biology (ISP, now part of IBED) performing lab experiments (RAPD-PCR) tracking population divergence in laboratory strains of the Western Flower Thrips Frankliniella occidentalis.