We want to welcome Ms Sarah Nisbet to Phenomics Australia’s team. Sarah brings extensive experience in the design and architecture of large-scale research information technology platforms, management of teams that support technology implementations, operational management and continuous improvement processes.
The Phenomics Australia Digital Platforms Director will establish a plan and implement a data science strategy for experimental genomics and phenomics data delivering an overall data management strategy. The Phenomics Australia Digital Platforms capability will provide an internal data management benefit to the Phenomics Australia node network, and to researchers/clinicians through access to a data platform to approach reference datasets that would allow them to ask questions about the genetic basis of disease. The resulting data assets would form the core of Phenomics Australia’s data strategy and be used to inform and underpin the data infrastructure required by our nodes, researchers and users. Through consultation and partnership, we will codesign a fit-for-purpose data infrastructure that supports current research and is also future-proofed to meet the needs of new initiatives such as Biobanking and AI.
Meet Sarah
Sarah has a nationally significant track record of delivering high-value digital research infrastructure to researchers in Australia. National digital research infrastructure platforms she has led include:
- Establishing Trust and Identity, a ~$10m NCRIS capability at the Australian Access Federation (AAF)
- The Australian BioCommons
- The Digital Humanities and Social Sciences Data Enhanced Virtual Lab (HASS DEVL),
- The implementation and ongoing operations of TANGO HPC & Cloud (South Australian Research Cloud), a specialised hardware cluster built using a combination of Dell EMC and VMWare, hardware and software technologies to deliver a powerful computational solution
- The implementation and ongoing operations of the local node of RDSI, a large-scale storage system providing over 3 Petabytes of storage capacity for South Australian researchers
- Implementation and ongoing operations of the South Australian node of Nectar, a 3000 core OpenStack cluster. This local node joined 8 other cloud Nodes across all states of Australia, providing a computing resource of almost 30,000 processing cores
“ I’m really excited to be brining my experience to the data challenge at Phenomics Australia. I look forward to working with the community to design a data infrastructure that is fit for purpose and works hard for researchers to enable them to make important disease discoveries. ”
