Liz Gallagher
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Principal Data Scientist, Data Science Practice
Liz is a principal data scientist working in the Data Science Practice.
Liz leads on ASF’s heat pump suitability project; where the team are using open datasets to map heat pump suitability across Great Britain. Liz is also responsible for some of Nesta’s work on the labour market - using data science techniques to extract information from job adverts, and using this to analyse skill demands and the greenness of jobs in the UK.
Before Nesta, Liz was a data scientist at the Wellcome Trust. She worked mainly on natural language processing tasks, including working on a project to automatically identify references within policy documents. Prior to this, Liz completed a PhD in Cultural Evolution at University College London, working on agent-based models to help understand the origins of agriculture.
Outside of work Liz enjoys life drawing, aimless cycling, going to the cinema and sudoku.
