Sophie Marion de Proce
Lecturer

- Usher Institute
- College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Contact details
- Email: sdeproce@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Teaching Organisation
Usher Institute, Usher Building
The University of Edinburgh
5-7 Little France Road
Edinburgh BioQuarter ‒ Gate 3 - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH16 4UX
Background
Sophie Marion de Procé is a Lecturer in the Health and Social Care Data-Driven Innovations (DDI) Talent programme. She works on the online MSc in Data Science for Health and Social Care and the Undergaduate Biomedical and Health Applications of Data Science programmes launched at the Usher institute within The University of Edinburgh. She is involved in course development, teaching and assessment.
Sophie is an evolutionary biologist by training. Over the last 15 years, she has done quantitative research on a variety of topics including molecular evolution, human genomics and cancer methylation. Bioinformatics, statistics and data analysis are her favourite aspects of research. Alongside her research, she has provided training in those subjects to a range of students and colleagues.
Qualifications
PhD. Molecular evolution in two species of Drosophila. University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
MSc. Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution. University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
BSc. Ecology and Biodiversity. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Undergraduate teaching
Lecturer and Deputy Director for the Undergraduate Biomedical and Health Applications of Data Science BMedSci programme.
Postgraduate teaching
Lecturer and dissertation lead for the MSc Data Science for Health and Social Care
Academic Cohort Lead
Current PhD students supervised
MSc Data Science for Health and Social Care students
Past PhD students supervised
MSc Epidemiology and MSc Data Science for Health and Social Care