Career background
Taking a unique career route has enriched my skill repertoire.
Keep reading to learn about my toolkit, work journey, and academic foundation that sprouted from this switch.
Skills
As a result of my career experience, I have developed the following skills:
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Statistics: Descriptive & Inferential statistics (Hypothesis testing, Regression and Correlation analysis, Analysis of Variance)
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Databases: Excel/Google Sheets, BigQuery/Microsoft SSMS
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Programming languages: SQL, R
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Data visualization: Excel, R, Tableau, SigmaPlot, SPSS
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Reporting: R Markdown documents, Notion workspace, communication and presentation skills
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Team cooperation: Cross-functional teams, Trello, Click-Up, Asana
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Languages: Spanish (native), English (C2), Polish (A1)
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Throughout my years as a scientific researcher, I have co-authored and published 7 scientific articles in indexed, peer-reviewed journals and 2 book chapters in the fields of Neuroscience, Developmental Biology, and Cell Biology. For a more detailed description, please refer to my publication record.
Work Experience
Feb 2023 - present
Toolkit
Excel | Google Sheets
Looker Studio
ChatGPT
Tableau
Aug 2022 - present
Toolkit
Motomo | Hotjar
Excel
Canva
Tableau
SQL
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Toolkit
Wix
Jasper AI
Notion
Mendeley
Dec 2017 - Sep 2022
Toolkit
Excel
SPSS | R Studio
SigmaPlot | Interactive Dotplot
Fiji ImageJ | Zeiss ZEN
CellProfiler | Ilastik
Mendeley
Sep 2014 - Oct 2017
Toolkit
Excel
SPSS | SigmaStat
SigmaPlot
Ethovision | MCID Core
Mendeley
Self-employed Data & Science Communicator
End-to-end process, data-driven business solutions, discover and present insights, data quality checks, build custom dashboards, create reports and presentations to share recommendations.
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🌟 Company data audit resulting in 60% reduction of internal documentation duplicates and data errors, automated reporting system resulting in +15 h / month saved for employees.
Marketing Analyst at Ready
Data-driven marketing strategy through customer and market insights to help achieve strategic business goals, via ad hoc analyses, dashboard creation, and web and social media analytics.
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🌟 Website design for optimized user path, resulting in +226% average visit duration for new visitors and +72% actions per visit within 6 months.
Freelance Science Content Creator
Strategic content creation in the form of articles, ebooks, and press releases for companies in the fields of biotech, female health, and edtech.
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🌟 Creation of keyword-based press release, resulting in a 2.5% increase in unique visitors and 132% increase in average site sessions per day to company’s website in the month following press release publication.
Pre-doctoral Researcher at Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology
Project management, financial administration, conducting research, technical support in automation, scientific writing, reporting and communication to internal and external stakeholders.
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🌟 Development of automated pipelines for image analysis via implementation of ML-based software, saving +100 h of manual labor per project.
Post-graduate Researcher at University of Oviedo
Conduct research, innovation and creation of new metrics, internal documentation, scientific writing, reporting and communication to internal and external stakeholders, mentoring of interns.
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🌟Established and maintained successful cooperation with promoter-observer entity and their technical team in order to outsource specialized technologies, resulting in increased quality and impact of research.
Education & Certifications
Coursera
(2022)
Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences
(2017-2022)
National University of Distance Education (UNED)
(2015-2016)
University of Oviedo
(2010-2014)
Certified Google Data Analytics Professional
Related coursework:
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Processing of Data from Dirty to Clean
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Data Analysis with R Programming
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Share Data Through the Art of Visualization with Tableau
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🌟 Capstone project on Case study about smart devices usage using RStudio.
PhD in Cell Biology
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Data Analysis and Visualization in R
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Scientific Communication
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Statistics
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🌟 PhD dissertation on the topics of Synaptogenesis and Cell Biology: Cytoskeletal regulators of the postsynaptic machinery development at the murine neuromuscular junction.
MSc Research in Psychology, Psychobiology specialization
Related coursework:
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Advanced Research Designs
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Statistics
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Making a Research in Psychology
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🌟 Master’s thesis on the topic of Psychobiology of Stress and Memory: The effect of environmental enrichment on memory and stress reactivity.
BSc in Biology
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Mathematics
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Statistics
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Computational Biology
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🌟Degree dissertation on the topic of Applied Molecular Biology: Forensic Medicine and applications of the CODIS system and genome sequencing.