Dr. Gal Schkolnik

Owner of A/B testing Dashboards, ad-hoc and reporting for Product Deep dives into data to gain insights

- Planning and overseeing data infrastructure for BI: Data pipelining and warehouse structure (ETL), traffic attribution and Event Tracking (in-house and Google Analytics) - Creating reports and dashboards: queries in SQL, reporting in Tableau, Excel, redash, Python (pandas, Bokeh), GA - Leading, planning and analyzing A/B-testing and data-driven decision-making

BI: Creating and implementing an event tracking concept (GTM, GA, Firebase) Analyzing usage data (SQL and GA) Planning, performing and analyzing A/B and user tests Product management: Stakeholder communication Concepts, specs and documentation A/B and user tests Project management

 Establishing a collaboration between MPI-DS and UFZ  Development and application of visualization methods for electroactive bacteria and biofilms at electrodes and interfaces  Methods: Videomicroscopy, particle tracking, Confocal Raman Microscopy, electron microscopy  Writing of grant proposals and scientific papers  Budget management (€100,000 /year, HPD fellowship)  Supervision of research assistant  Teaching: lab course for BSc students

Method development for microscopic investigation of taxis and biofilm formation of electroactive bacteria, with the purpose of obtaining experimental results for theoretical models of such systems.

Developing an innovative method for the indirect measurement of electric fields at protein surfaces and self assembled monolayers (SAM), using the vibrational Stark effect, utilizing FTIR spectroscopy and SEIRAS spectro-electrochemistry. Investigated proteins: Cytochrome c, Sensory Rhodopsin II Further topics: SAM electrochemistry and SAM electrostatics

Scientific translator (English/Hebrew)

ESL (English as Second Language) teacher for different levels and ages

Replacement project manager, due to permanent manager’s maternity leave. Establishing sample handling and sampling validation procedures, writing relevant SOPs (standard operating procedures) and assembly of lab and sampling equipment for a regional breathable particle sampling project.

Analytical method development and chemical analysis of smoke samples from the Amazon, as part of an international project, led by Prof M. O. Andreae of the Max Planck Institute, utilizing an IEC-PDA HPLC. compilation and interpretation of the data obtained by the multiple groups participating in the project. Development of permanent gas (COS) detection method using GC/MS .

Analytical method development and chemical analysis of various water-soluble ions in Mediterranean dust samples, using an IC-HPLC system.

Scientific article translations, writing and editing for magazines of the Israeli Engineers and Architects Association: Civil Engineering, Electronic Engineering and Chemical Engineering.

English/Hebrew translator and translation editor

spectroscopy, spectro-electrochemistry, bio-electrochemistry, protein electrostatics, self assembled monolayers (SAM), SAM electrostatrics, SAM modified electrodes, vibrational Stark effect, FTIR, surface enhanced IR absorption (SEIRA)

Analytical Chemistry, Atmospheric Chemistry, Environmental Science

Instrumental Analytical Chemistry