Bastian is a lapsed bioinformatician/evolutionary biologist with a keen interest in all things open* and participatory science. While working on his Master's degree he co-founded openSNP, an open data repository for personal genomic data, enabling academic & community science projects to use this data. After finishing a PhD in Bioinformatics he joined up with Open Humans to facilitate a wider re-use of personal data in learning and research. In his current work he is focused on understanding how to design community science projects to open up participation pathways that go beyond data collection and data processing.
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Effects of E-learning on students’ stress and attention span during the COVID-19 pandemic
Analyze how e-learning in pandemic affects students’ stress and attention span.
Mobility analysis
Analysis of mobility data for social good. Analysis of individual trajectories and global open data of human travels.
Porting the iOS app Overland to Android
Overland is an iOS app that tracks the user's location and sends this data to a server. The goal of this project is to port it to Android.
Using peer production in citizen science
Investigating whether peer production ideals and mechanisms can be used to facilitate bottom-up community science projects
How does using our phones influence our mood?
A small self-tracking experiment to evaluate the impact our phone & social media use
Open Science AIRE Course
Learning by doing Open Science
Quantified Flu
Can our wearables warn us before we fall sick? And can they distinguish between different kinds of infections, e.g. COVID-19 vs Influenza?
COVID-19 Symptoms Twitter Analysis
Understanding how local tweets about symptoms correlate with case numbers
Transbiome
Improving trans-related health research
Recommender systems to enhance collective intelligence for patient-led research
We are investigating how to make it easier for patients to do research together on the questions that matter most to them
FlySER
develop and build a cheap anti-"flying pests" LASER on the principle of Nathan Myhrvold's mosquito laser
