https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/author/leanne-wake/Recent content in Leanne Wake on The CarpentriesHugoen-usMon, 18 Nov 2024 23:02:38 -0500https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2016/01/steeringleannewake/Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://deploy-preview-705--carpentries-website.netlify.app/blog/2016/01/steeringleannewake/<p><b>This post originally appeared on the <a href="https://software-carpentry.org/">Software Carpentry website.</a></b></p> ## Academic background <p>You can find me in the Department of Geography in the <a href="https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/w/dr-leanne-mary-wake/">University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK</a>. In 2010 I obtained my PhD in Geophysics from Durham University, UK. I would describe myself, broadly, as an Earth system modeller. I try to understand the workings of a complex world through the 0s and 1s of code but I have been known get my hands dirty with fieldwork!</p>