Senior Lecturer in Data Science
Sara is a Senior Lecturer in Data Science with 15+ years' experience of Visualization research, and Newcastle Academic Lead for the Turing University Network. She received a PhD from Norrköping Visualization Centre-C, Linköping University, Sweden, in 2011, with a thesis titled Algorithmically Guided Information Visualization: Explorative Approaches for High Dimensional, Mixed and Categorical Data. Following her PhD she held positions as Data Visualization Scientist at Unilever R&D Port Sunlight (2011-2013), and as Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Visualization at the Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics at Cambridge University, UK (2013-2014). This was followed by a lectureship in Computer Science at Northumbria University, UK (promoted to Senior Lecturer 2016). She was appointed Lecturer in Data Science at Newcastle University, UK, in 2017.