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Research Analyst | Data Quality & Information Retrieval

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Mario Marcolongo

Research Analyst | Data Quality & Information Retrieval

Information retrieval · data quality · source verification · data visualization · research support

Italy · EU/EEA work-authorised · Open to sponsored international relocation and B2B engagementsmariomarcolongo.com[email protected]LinkedInGitHub

Research-verification and data-quality analyst with eight years of auditable scientific, biomedical, public-source and structured-data work. Experience spans original article creation, multilingual scientific localization, consumer-genomics privacy, archived corporate and legal records, scientific literature, source-quality analysis, paid fact-checking and leadership of an open research-participation directory with documented verification and metadata workflows.

Selected evidence

8 yearsAuditable verification workPublic source, citation and structured-data record
55Research resources indexed37 unique Wikidata items use the domain as a P854 reference URL
80Published scientific content contributions55 YouTube videos · 4 articles · 21 short-form pieces
70+Scientific visualizationsBiomedical, epidemiological and public-health evidence

Relevant experience

Science Writer & Fact-Checker / Website Manager (WordPress)

Entropy for Life · Independent contractor
Official Entropy for Life work record ↗
Jun 2023 — Present
  • Verify primary literature and conduct bibliographic research across 80 documented published contributions: 55 YouTube videos · 4 articles · 21 short-form pieces.
  • Localize predominantly English-language scientific evidence for Italian audiences, preserving factual meaning, terminology, citations and uncertainty while adapting explanatory structure and level of detail.
  • Designed and built entropyforlife.it in WordPress and manage responsive design, publishing, OVHcloud hosting, DNS, SSL and technical SEO.

Founder & Project Lead

Yourself to Science™
Website ↗FAIRsharing ↗Project statistics ↗
Aug 2024 — Present
  • Founded and operate an open-source directory indexing 55 research-participation resources; as of 27 July 2026, 37 unique Wikidata items use yourselftoscience.org as a reference URL (P854).
  • Defined inclusion and verification rules, provenance fields, licensing requirements, metadata structure and update workflows across heterogeneous institutional sources.
  • Maintain public records through FAIRsharing and Zenodo and coordinate AI-assisted technical implementation through requirements, testing and behavior inspection.
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Additional relevant experience

Mar 2018 — Present
  • Completed 4,317 auditable contributions across public knowledge and structured-data projects as of July 2026.
  • Created an 18,351-byte English policy article from academic, campaign, legal, institutional and journalistic sources; developed an Italian particle-physics biography through translation, terminology correction, source enrichment and WikiProject consultation; separately synthesized biomedical literature into a structured syndromic-autism taxonomy.
  • Perform citation checking, cross-language translation and adaptation, archival and provenance review, corporate and public-record reconciliation, taxonomy design and iterative correction across prose, structured data and scientific visualizations.

Additional evidence

Cross-surface research-integrity tooling

Notandia helps researchers identify articles from publishers whose editorial and peer-review practices have attracted scrutiny and check for formal post-publication notices in the browser, while its Zotero plugin currently focuses on precise MDPI item and reference detection. It uses DOI, domain, metadata, PMID/PMCID and structured PubMed Central evidence, and skips uncertain matches rather than guessing.

Reproducible ecological data explorer

Built a public protein-supply-by-bodyweight explorer combining FAOSTAT, NCD-RisC and World Bank data with visible assumptions, benchmark caveats and shareable views.

Capabilities

Information retrievalPrimary-source and bibliographic search, claim tracing, source discovery, query refinement, source-quality assessment and cross-source corroboration
Data qualityStructured metadata, provenance, entity reconciliation, taxonomy design, validation rules, documentation and quality-control workflows
Data visualization70+ published biomedical, epidemiological and public-health visualizations across Wikimedia Commons, Tableau Public and Flourish
Research analysisClaim decomposition, evidence screening, conflicting-source reconciliation, uncertainty documentation and synthesis for decision-ready outputs
Technical deliveryCodebase reading and behavior inspection, requirements definition, functional testing, AI-assisted implementation, Git/GitHub, JSON, REST APIs, WordPress, DNS/SSL and cloud deployment

Best-fit role families

  • Data quality and information-quality analysis
  • Research analysis and evidence verification
  • Data visualization and research support
  • Scientific, biomedical and AI-content quality

Education & credentials

  • Information Technology — Open UAS Path Studies (120 ECTS) — Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Aug 2026–Present; bachelor's-level ICT studies in software development, databases, Unix/Linux, data structures and algorithms, networking, cloud computing, cybersecurity and applied AI. Eligible to apply to the BEng IT programme after completing 120 ECTS (admission not yet granted).
  • GALENOS Crowd Evidence Synthesis Training — Cochrane Crowd & GALENOS, 2026
  • Career Essentials in Generative AI — Microsoft & LinkedIn, 2024
  • Italian — native. English — C1 overall (EF SET 68/100); advanced technical reading and professional writing, with practical English-to-Italian scientific localization and cross-language content-quality work.
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