Fiona Nielsen

Fiona Nielsen has a background in bioinformatics across life sciences, genomics, and big data.

She began her career at Illumina, developing tools to interpret next-generation sequencing data, before going on to found DNAdigest in in 2013, a charity promoting ethical data sharing.

Fiona founded Repositive, a spinout from DNAdigest, and later went on to lead - and offer consultancy to - a range of life science start-ups in the greater South East of England.

Working in close collaboration with the Earlham Institute's Executive Team, Senior Management Team, Scientific staff and the Business Development and Impact team, Fiona is supporting to strategy development for commercialisation of scientific products and services, spinning out innovation.