Elegant SciPy: The Art of Scientific Python Paperback - 2017

Juan Nunez-Iglesias is a freelance consultant and a Research Scientist at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Prior positions include Research Associate at HHMI Janelia Farm (where he worked with Mitya Chklovskii) and Research Assistant/PhD student at the University of Southern California (where he studied computational biology supervised by Xianghong Jasmine Zhou). His principal research interests are neuroscience and image analysis. He is also interested in graph methods in bioinformatics and in biostatistics.

Stfan van der Walt is an assistant researcher at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science at the University of California, Berkeley and a senior lecturer in applied mathematics at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He has been involved in the development of scientific open-source software for more than a decade, and enjoys teaching Python at workshops and conferences. Stfan is the founder of scikit-image and a contributor to numpy, scipy, and dipy.

Harriet Dashnow is a bioinformatician and has worked at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Melbourne and the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI). Harriet obtained a BA (Psychology), a BS (Genetics and Biochemistry), and a MS (Bioinformatics) from the University of Melbourne. She is currently working towards a PhD. She organises and teaches computational skills workshops in such areas as genomics, Software Carpentry, Python, R, Unix, and Git version control.