Aida Sanchez is the Data Manager on the Whitehall II study of the UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. She obtained a PhD in Computational Chemistry from the University of Malaga (Spain) in 1996 and worked for two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Computational Photochemistry Group of King’s College London. Since 2000 she worked an Oracle Database Programmer in several organizations, including the Institute of Cancer Research (2003-2005) and University College London (since 2005).

In October 2006 Dr Sanchez joined the Whitehall II team to take responsibility for managing the data used by the researchers and their collaborators. This includes planning and coordinating the policy of data management and data sharing, providing line management for other study data managers, and developing and maintaining the study data held in a SAS database.