## B

:::{profile} Batool Almarzouq
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roles: |
    Steering Committee Member (Chair-Elect);
    Translation and Localisation Working Group Chair (2021-Present);
    TPS Staff (2023-Present);
    Infrastructure Maintainer (2021-2022);
    Book Dash Planning Committee 2021;
    Book Dash Participant (2021)
orcid: 0000-0002-3905-2751
twitter: batool664
bio: |
    Batool is an honorary research fellow at the University of Liverpool, and a previous Project Manbage for AIM-RSF at the Turing Institute. She is also an RWeekly member and part of the R-Ladies Global committee. As an advocate for Open Science and its role in improving scientific and economic outputs in the Middle East, she established an Open Science Community in Saudi Arabia (OSCSA). OSCSA aims to create significant value towards Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030, which focuses on enhancing knowledge and improving equal access to education in the Kingdom.
highlights: |
    In May 2021 Book Dash, I co-developed a chapter on "CI services".
    In the previous Book Dash, I have helped upgrade the Jupyter Book Infrastructure and add [hypothes.is](https://web.hypothes.is/) to enable collaborative annotation of _The Turing Way_ chapters. I have also translated the README.me chapter into Arabic.
    Although November 2021 Book Dash week was hectic (homeless twice while looking for a hotel in a foreign country) looking back it was a fascinating week. I'm always grateful to be part of such a community - in the past week, I was inspired by everyone's work and very thankful for the Book Dash Planning Committee who are always patient with me. I was also so lucky to work with the wonderful Andrea Sanchez Tapia  and Alejandro Coca on a new workflow for the translation.
quote: |
    Being part of The Turing Way community not only nourishes my skills but miraculously treats my anxiety and depression. I always feel grateful for being here. Thank you so much to everyone I met at this Book Dash event :heart:.
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:::{profile} Becki Green
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roles: |
    Book Dash Participant (2021)
github: beckigreen
orcid: 0000-0002-0513-5188
bio: |
    I am a PhD student at King’s College London (supervised by Dr Petroula Proitsi & Professor Marcus Richards) and an Engage student at The Alan Turing Institute. My PhD project aims to identify early mechanisms and biological markers of dementia, and I am currently also working on the DECOVID project at the Institute.
highlights: |
    Working alongside such wonderful people and learning so much! An enriching experience - I look forward to contributing in future events. A further highlight was gaining experience in working collaboratively on a large project, including reviewing my first pull request!
quote: |
    A welcoming and enriching environment. Collaborating with others was valuable and has provided me with tools to apply to my research and share with others.
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:::{profile} Becky Arnold
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roles: |
    Project Delivery Team Member (2018 - 2019)
github: r-j-arnold
orcid: 0000-0003-0355-0617
bio: |
    I'm an astrophysics PhD student at the University of Sheffield and I do computer simulations of star-forming regions.
    I'm a 2018 Software Sustainability Institute fellow using the funds to organise talks and workshops about various issues surrounding good programming practice.
more: |
    I am passionate about Science.
    All over the world humans come together to try and figure out how the universe works and that's *amazing*, just as amazing as the answers themselves.
    I'm also passionate about how we do that science, making sure it's accurate and reproducible.
    If it isn't both of those things we haven't moved forwards much, or worse still end up going in circles.
    I care deeply about changing the culture of academia, in which abuse of power (both minor and major) is all too common.
    I've met so many people who want to code well and follow best practices, which will benefit science enormously but struggle to know how to do so.
    While there are lots of fantastic resources out there they're often scattered and _The Turing Way_ can improve that.
    I also hope that it can convince people who don't consider themselves capable of being good programmers that there are steps they can take to drastically improve their coding.
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:::{profile} Benjamin Mummery
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twitter: BenjaminMummery
bio: |
    While studying Astrophysics, Benjamin was the first speaker at, and later organizer of, Liverpool PubHD ([Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/pubhdliverpool/), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/pubhd_liverpool?lang=en-gb)) - a monthly cross-discipline event that challenged PhD students to "explain their research in 10 minutes, while enjoying a pint." During this time he also developed and delivered multiple more official outreach events including presenting to both the public and airforce commanders at [RAF Cosford Airshow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KImlYiCO7Vs), and frequent activities for schools. Now a Research Software Engineer at the Hartree Centre, he has continued his engagement with outreach, most recently in collaboration with Tim Powell designing a LEGO version of the Centre's iconic supercomputer [Scafell Pike](https://twitter.com/HartreeCentre/status/1189145621564968963). He can frequently be found banging on about [fictional](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrqfT4aotfE) [time travel](https://inews.co.uk/culture/film/donnie-darko-reviewed-astrophysicist-531742).
highlights: |
    I collaborated with a group of researchers from The Alan Turing Institute to draft a chapter of scientific outreach.
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:::{profile} Brigitta Sipőcz
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roles: |
    Infrastructure Maintainer (2023 - present)
github: bsipocz
orcid: 0000-0002-3713-6337
bio: |
    I am an astronomer turned Research Software Engineer.
    I work at Caltech/IPAC to build and improve tools, like Python libraries and Science Platforms to provide ways to access data in the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive.
    Prior joining IPAC I was DiRAC Fellow in the data engineering team at the Institute for Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology in Seattle.
    I am a developer and maintainer of several open source astronomy libraries and their infrastructure (including astroML, astroquery, astropy) and I enjoy contributing to upstream projects as well.
    I have a keen interest in finding ways to promote the open development model and make tools more sustainable.
    I am a fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute.
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