The afrimapr team currently consist of the grant applicants and include the people listed below. We are working hard to grow the community around afrimapr and hope to add some more faces to this page in the near future.
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- Dr Andy South
- London School of Tropical Medicine, UK
- @southmapr
Andy works at the interface between biology, research and software, starting with LSTM while a freelance R consultant. He’s very keen on R, data visualisation and open-source software.
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- Anelda van der Walt
- Talarify, South Africa
- @aneldavdw
Anelda has a background in bioinformatics. Since 2014 she has been working with researchers and students across all disciplines to adopt technology in an effort to enhance the impact of their research.
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- Dr Julie-Anne Tangena
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
- @JTangena
Julie-Anne Tangena is a public health entomologist. She was awarded an MRC Skills Development Fellowship to improve mosquito surveillance activities of vector control programs and divides her time between LSTM, Lancaster University, and Malawi.
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- Dr Margareth Gfrerer
- Education Strategy Centre, Ethiopia
- @
Margareth holds a PhD in Economics, a MA in Economics Education and a MA in International Commerce. She has been involved in numerous international projects in the field of infrastructure management prior her current assignment in Ethiopia, where her focus is on Open Science and its impacts.
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- Dr Paula Moraga
- Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, UK
- @Paula_Moraga_
Paula’s research focuses on the development of innovative statistical methods and open-source software for geospatial data analysis and health surveillance, and has directly informed strategic policy in reducing disease burden in several countries
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- Dr Robin Lovelace
- Leeds Institute for Transport Studies, UK
- @robinlovelace
Robin is a geographer and environmental scientist specialising in spatial data analysis and computing, especially R programming. Robin has a strong interest in transport modelling.