Iain Emsley
Research Software Engineer at University of Warwick
Greater Oxford Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIain Emsley is a Research Software Engineer with 11 years of experience at the intersection of computer science and sound, specialising in sonification, computational thinking and experimentation-driven inquiry. He combines academic rigour—evidenced by a PhD and teaching roles in digital methods—with hands-on software engineering across research institutions including Warwick, Sussex and the Oxford e-Research Centre. Comfortable moving between theory and practice, he builds research tooling, teaches labs, and supports reproducible research workflows that enable exploratory sound-based studies. Based in Greater Oxford, he pairs an MSc in Software Engineering with a track record of embedding digital methods into humanities and scientific research, often surfacing insights that are as auditory as they are computational.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Software Engineering, Master of Science (MSc) Software Engineering at University of OxfordPost Graduate Award in Technology Enhanced Learning Education Digital Methods, Post Graduate Award in Technology Enhanced Learning Education Digital Methods at University of WarwickInternational Baccalaureate English Maths Biology English History Social Anthropology German, International Baccalaureate English Maths Biology English History Social Anthropology German at Impington Village CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of Sussex2:1 English, 2:1 English at University of Leicester
Github Skills (42)
alpha10
digital-humanities10
ecology9
python8
doi8
data-wrangling7
stable7
data-capture7
json-ld6
social-media6
science6
schema6
metadata6
ndjson6
data-visualisation6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
iaine/unheardcityapp
May 2021 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 39 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 6 months
iaine/r-dev-env
Jun 2024 - Feb 2026
R Dev Container documentation
Contributions:3 PRs, 73 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 8 months
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