Monica Turner

Monica Turner is a humanitarian data scientist at MapAction, based at the UN's Centre for Humanitarian Data in the Hague. In 2015 she completed her PhD in astrophysics, where she focused on the statistical analysis of distant, bright galaxy spectra to determine the composition of gas in the Universe. She then worked at Las Cumbres Observatory where she built pipelines for processing astronomical data. Before starting at MapAction, she spent 6 months volunteering as a data scientist at 510 global (part of the Netherlands Red Cross), where she worked on automating the assessment of building damage due to natural disasters.