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Name Tom Russell
Affiliation University of Oxford
Department School of Geography and the Environment
Group OPSIS - Oxford Programme for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems
Research area code (H0) Broadly-based programmes within engineering & technology
Fellowship Inauguration Year 2022
Institutional Website https://opsis.eci.ox.ac.uk/author/tom-russell/
ORCID 0000-0002-0081-400X
Google Scholar https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=5wl_L9wAAAAJ
GitHub tomalrussell
Twitter tlrss
LinkedIn tomalrussell
Interests
  • maps, graphs and trees
  • collaborative data maintenance
  • reproducible research, openness and accessibility
  • infrastructure systems, sustainability and climate risk
Short Biography

I work as a Senior Research Software Engineer embedded in a research group in the University of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment, the Oxford Programme for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems. I work closely with researchers on water, energy, transport and other infrastructure systems, developing simulation models, spatial data analysis and visualisations.

During my fellowship, I aimed to work with people interested in collaborative data maintenance, that is, working together to collect and maintain data - in particular, in this case, data about buildings and the built environment. I worked in collaboration with the Colouring Cities Research Programme, which is now a network with a UK hub in London at the Alan Turing Institute, and ten or more projects in cities and countries around the world.

I started out with a degree in English Literature and French and worked as a translator and web developer for a few years before studying part-time for a masters degree from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis in University College London and starting to work as a research assistant and research software developer.

Previous events

Title Start date End date
Collaborations Workshop 2024 Tuesday, 30 April 2024 Thursday, 02 May 2024
Collaborations Workshop 2023 (CW23) Tuesday, 02 May 2023 Thursday, 04 May 2023

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