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Zahra Waheed

Zahra Waheed

KS3 and A-level Biology Tutor

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Senior Bioinformatician at European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI

  • Education

    • King's College London

      2015 - 2018
      Bachelor of Science (Bsc) Anatomy, Developmental and Human Biology First Class Honours

      Activities and Societies: Ihsan Spirituality Society- Secretary for 2 years, Karate, KIIPS (King's I.T and Intellectual Property Society), Korean Culture, Bioscience Association

    • St George's, University of London (for students and alumni)

      2018 - 2019
      Master of Science (Msc) Genomic Medicine Distinction

  • Experience

    • Advanced Tuition

      Mar 2016 - Jul 2021
      KS3 and A-level Biology Tutor

    • Barts Health NHS Trust

      Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
      Work experience

    • University of Cambridge

      Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
      Undergraduate Summer Vacation Research Scholarship 2018

      - Developed, for the first time, a computational pipeline for the 3D reconstruction of mouse salivary glands, using scientific image analysis software- Collaborated with specialist researchers across a range of disciplines to perform regular troubleshooting of the project- Presented my work at the Anatomical Society Winter Meeting in December 2018

    • Marks & Clerk

      Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
      Insight Day

    • Accenture

      Sept 2019 - Sept 2019
      Accenture Technology Visionaries Experience

      -Completed an intensive four-day project to solve a business challenge by designing a Blockchain solution, as part of a team. The final day involved presenting our solution to a panel of managing directors-Gained hands-on experience with the Hyperledger Composer environment and Javascript to design smart contracts -Strengthened my organizational, problem-solving and interpersonal skills by working as a team in a highly fast-paced and pressured environment

    • Girls in Tech - London

      Oct 2019 - Sept 2020
      Volunteer

    • European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI

      Jan 2020 - now

      I worked as a Bioinformatician on the Accelerating Medicines Partnership- Type 2 Diabetes (AMP-T2D) Project, a public-private partnership which aims to make human genetic data on T2D globally accessible, in order to facilitate the discovery of novel drugs for this disease- Involved harmonising and loading genetic datasets to an open access Type 2 Diabetes knowledgebase and portal, to facilitate querying and custom analysis of this data by other researchers - Responsible for running and troubleshooting GWAS analysis pipelines (incorporating Bash, Python, R and Java) in a Unix environment- Successfully debugged a complex GWAS analysis pipeline through collaboration with other bioinformaticians and software developers - Gained a solid understanding of LSF job submission- Gained experience working with Docker containers, secure access computing systems, virtual machines and cloud environments Show less

      • Senior Bioinformatician

        Oct 2023 - now

      • Bioinformatician

        May 2020 - Nov 2023

      • Bioinformatician

        Jan 2020 - Apr 2020

    • Tech Skills Workshops

      Sept 2020 - now
      Volunteer

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Fundamentals of Deep Learning

      NVIDIA
      Oct 2024
      View certificate certificate

    • Research Software Engineering Workshop

      Health Data Research UK (HDR UK)
      Dec 2024