Irene Papatheodorou

The Head of Data Science at the Earlham Institute.Irene leads a group of skilled data-led scientists, focusing on:developing software and metadata standards for openly and reproducibly sharing different types of omics data and imagesdecoding phenotypes using single-cell genomics.Previously, Irene led the Gene Expression team at EMBL-EBI where she developed the Single Cell Expression Atlas, EMBL-EBI’s core resource for single cell transcriptomics data.At EBI she led community efforts for developing the first metadata standards and standardized analysis workflows for single-cell RNA-Seq data. She continues to contribute to large-scale cell atlas projects such as the Human Cell Atlas, Plant Cell Atlas and Biodiversity Cell Atlas.