David is a Research Software Engineer (RSE) in the Digital Innovation Team.

Prior to joining BAS in January 2024, he was a Senior RSE in the University of Sheffield RSE team since 2019, taking an interest in improving research reproducibility, sustainability and accountability though collaboration and training.

He is also a 2022 fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, with an interest in developing training and guidance for reproducible research in MATLAB.

Previously to becoming an RSE, he undertook a PhD and two postdoctoral research positions at the University of Bristol and Lund University in visual sensory biology using computational and laboratory methods from optical physics and engineering.

Selected publications (for full list see google scholar)

• Wilby, D., Karmakharm, T., Roberts, I., Song, X., & Bontcheva, K. (2023). GATE teamware 2: An open-source tool for collaborative document classification annotation. Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, 145–151.
  https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-demo.17
• Wilby, D. et al. (2019). Using micro-CT techniques to explore the role of sex and hair in the functional morphology of bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) ocelli. Vision Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.
  2019.02.008
• Feller, K. D., Wilby, D., et al. (2019). Long-Wavelength Reflecting Filters Found in the Larval Retinas of One Mantis Shrimp Family (Nannosquillidae). Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.07.070
• Wilby, D., & Roberts, N. W. (2017). Optical influence of oil droplets on cone photoreceptor sensitivity. Journal of Experimental Biology. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.152918
• Wilby, D. et al. (2015). Optics of cone photoreceptors in the chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus). Journal of The Royal Society Interface. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2015.0591

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive