Science

Academic research

During my short academic career, I think I did some particularly cool science:

Variations in the oral microbiome are associated with depression in young adults

Open science is the bee's knees, so I made sure the code and data were publicly available.

I have also published other work, mostly involving data science or genomic data.

It would have been nice to publish more things on the human microbiome and mental health, and I did a lot of weird and novel metagenomics work, but unfortunately it never saw the light of day for mysterious reasons.

I don't do independent research anymore because I don't think I was a very good post-doc (I find grinding out papers to be unpleasant). I still contribute to research projects as a bioinformatician or data scientist sometimes.

Patents

Although I don't think intellectual property should exist, patents are sometimes used as a signal that academic work has translational potential or is especially impactful, so I thought it would be sensible to include this:

A method of diagnosing depression in a subject (PCT/EP2021/065987)

I hope that I never have to speak with a patent lawyer again.