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Poppy is a policy researcher who supports the development and operations of QuantQual.

A recent graduate from the University of Cambridge, Poppy studied Human, Social and Political Sciences, specialising in public policy and the anthropology of ethics. Her dissertation explored the commodification of Indian spiritual practices and the complexities surrounding cultural exchange and commercialisation.

Kian is completing a Master’s degree in Computer Science at the University of Freiburg, specialising in image and video recognition, and large language models.

His practical software engineering experience includes work on biosphere simulation, biomedical LLM research and image-recognition systems for reconstructing complex engineering diagrams. His dissertation explored the prediction of ejection fraction from echocardiograms using machine learning, combining applied AI with clinically relevant computer vision methods.

Ben is a software engineer specialising in interfaces for data analytics.

Most recently this has been in the product analytics space, building AI tooling to query large, heterogeneous data sources. He also has experience building and leveraging digital twins, including a simulation engine for an indoor farming solution and a dissertation that used in-silico models to predict cerebral aneurysm rupture.

Stuart Astill has over 20 years of experience working at the heart of analytical, strategic, policy and operational thinking creating insights improving decision making, operational efficiency and VfM as well as establishing innovative projects.

He brings his qualitative and quantitative skills to a broad range of work for NGOs, national governments, international and intergovernmental organisations, the European Commission, private sector and third-sector clients.

Simon Henderson has spent nearly 30 years working on performance measurement, lesson-learning and accountability with public and civil society organisations in over 20 developing countries and in the UK.

Simon’s expertise in monitoring and evaluation within the governance sphere has seen him delivering projects including two major studies into the effectiveness of Australian electoral assistance in Papua New Guinea and the Asia-Pacific region, evaluation of UK support fostering transboundary water governance of major international rivers in South Asia and an initiative to strengthen evidence-informed policy-making in Indonesia