Paul Browne
Chair at Cambridge for Europe
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Browne is a strategic communications leader with a decade of experience translating complex scientific research into clear, funder-ready reporting and public-facing content, currently serving as Senior Communications Manager at the MRC Epidemiology Unit. With a PhD in Molecular Biology and early career roots as a biocurator at EMBL-EBI, he uniquely blends deep scientific literacy with digital and cloud-focused research computing awareness from his work with the University of Cambridge Research Computing Platforms team. He has led communications strategy, managed digital channels and media relations, and overseen research data collection and impact reporting for major reviews and funders. An active community organiser as Chair of Cambridge for Europe, he brings calm project leadership to high-stakes, cross‑disciplinary collaborations. Colleagues value his ability to bridge lab science, data infrastructure and storytelling, making technical work accessible to policymakers, funders and the public.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Science, Diploma, Computer Science at Anglia Ruskin UniversityPhD, Molecular Biology, PhD, Molecular Biology at University of CambridgeScience, 1st Class honours, Biochemistry, chemistry, Science, 1st Class honours, Biochemistry, chemistry at University College Dublin
Github Skills (25)
openstack9
darwin6
nms6
ansible6
anatomy6
evolution6
ontology6
bare-metal6
backup5
infrastructure5
emc4
network4
ansible-role3
sdp3
security2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
RSE-Cambridge/kayobe
Dec 2019 - Jun 2023
Deployment of containerised OpenStack to bare metal using kolla and bifrost
Contributions:1 review, 10 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 7 months
bare-metalopenstack
RSE-Cambridge/cumulus-config
Feb 2019 - Apr 2022
Configuration of Cambridge UIS Evolution of Darwin (EoD) OpenStack infrastructure
Contributions:84 PRs, 88 pushes, 44 branches in 3 years 2 months
eodevolutioninfrastructuredarwinopenstack
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