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Arfon Smith currently works as a scientist at Github and has spent much of his career focusing on Web-based citizen science initiatives. He is interested in exploring all things science, research, and online. Prior to Github, he was the Director of Citizen Science at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago and Technical Lead of the Zooniverse. He gained a PhD in Astrochemistry from The University of Nottingham (2006) and subsequently worked as a senior software developer in the production software group at The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge (UK). In 2008 he joined the Zooniverse team at University of Oxford and has coordinated the development of more than 20 citizen science projects and grown the Zooniverse community to more than 650,000 volunteers.