About me

Stuff I've done

Education

  • PhD Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, University of Glasgow (2018)
  • MSc Bioengineering, with distinction, Strathclyde University (2012)
    Accredited by the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM)
  • BSc Physics and Applied Physics, Strathclyde University (2001)

Employment

  • Lead Research Software Engineer, Scottish COVID-19 Response Consortium [SCRC] (May 2020 to date)
  • Postdoctoral Research Assistant, BAHCM, University of Glasgow (2018 to date)
  • Teaching Assistant for Biodiversity and Advanced Programming in R MSc courses, University of Glasgow (2017 to date)
  • English Instructor, Chonnam National University, South Korea (2008-2011)
  • Middle School English Teacher, Okgwa Middle School, South Korea (2007-2008)
  • Schneider, K., White, T., Mitchell, S. N., et al. (2020). Pitfalls and virtues of population genetic summary statistics: detecting selective sweeps in recent divergences. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4581
  • Mitchell, S. N., Reeve, R., and White., T. J. (2020). rdiversity: Measurement and Partitioning of Similarity-Sensitive Biodiversity. R package version 2.0. GitHub
  • Sarker, S. K., Matthiopoulos, J., Mitchell, S. N., Ahmed, Z. U., Paul, N. K., and Reeve, R. (2019). 1980s – 2010s: The world’s largest mangrove ecosystem is becoming homogenous. Biological Conservation 236:79-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.05.011
  • Kirkpatrick, L., Mitchell, S. N., and Park, K. J. (2018). The metric matters when assessing diversity: Assessing lepidopteran species richness and diversity in two habitats under different disturbance regimes. Ecology and Evolution, 8(22):11134-11142. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4581
  • Reeve, R., Leinster, T., Cobbold, C. A., Thompson, J., Brummitt, N., Mitchell, S. N., and Matthews, L. (2016). How to partition diversity. arXiv:1404.6520. arXiv:1404.6520v3

In preparation

  • Chase Topping, M., Lupolova, N., Allison, L., Matthews, L., Mitchell, S. N., et al. Differences in Strain composition of E. coli O157 in cattle and humans between Scotland and England & Wales: implications for human health (in preparation)
  • Reeve, R., Mitchell, S. N., Leinster, T., Cobbold, C. A., Thompson, J., Brummitt, N., Matthews, L., Partitioning biological diversity between subcommunities (in preparation)
  • Mitchell, S. N., Reeve, R. Phylogenetic beta diversity: Comparisons with traditional measures of phylogenetic diversity (in preparation)