Hi! Welcome to my personal website.
I’m passionate about open science and open source hardware, and how those two can be used to increase research and education reach around the world. I have a background in Neurosciences and have been developing affordable open science hardware and teaching others to do so via workshops, talks and outreach events.
I started Open Neuroscience, and volunteer at Trend in Africa as an open source adviser and by organizing and running Open Labware workshops.
Currently I work at the Department of Neurosciences in the University of Sussex, where I develop equipment to support research labs. For more details on those projects check the Open Sussex Neuroscience page
On my spare time I offer consultancy services around open science hardware through Prometheus Science. If you need to replicate a methods paper, or if you’d like something custom built for your lab, get in touch!
If you would like to get in touch, drop me a line using the contact form at the end of this page!
PhD in Neural and Behavioural Neurosciences, 2020
University of Tuebingen
Master of Science in Cellular and Molecular Neurosciences, 2010
University of Tuebingen
BSc in Biology, 2007
University of São Paulo
Pre prints and peer reviewed publications
Open science tools, community projects and voluntary work
Worn out belt replacement
A current source to drive an Electrically tunable lens
System to synchronise behavioural systems from Med-associates with ephys/2-photon systems that use National instruments DAQ
an online repository for trained models using Eventer
A system to track zebrafish behaviour with multiple cameras
System to log lux, temperature, and humidity while being able to send emails and trigger warnings when any of the three variables goes out of range
A fast, time precise, open source system to deliver odours
An online training series teaching best practices for open source hardware development
An open source circuit to modulate laser intensity in a 2 Photon microscope.
A 3D printed goggle to be used with google cardboard framework
Simple printed replacement for an acrylic part
A curated repository for open source projects related to neurosciences
A simple circuit to combine voltage signals coming from different PMTs
A mentoring program to share best developing and community building practices for Open Hardware projects
Responding to COVID-19, we’ve built 120 face shields for the local hospital
A system to measure fast light transients
An OpenSource LED stimulator for visual and optogenetics stimulation in combination with 2-photon recording
An arbitrary-spectrum spatial visual stimulator for vision research
Developed for Dr. Eravci at the Mass Spectrometry unit, this 3D printed adapter is used to hold polyamide tubes in a pipette puller.
An add on to extend functionality of Med Associates behavioural system
A voltage amplifier compatible with Arduino Due
A system to calibrate electrodes used in Voltammetry experiments
Build free and open science hardware following user demand
Webinar for the Open Science MOOC group. Starting theirs webinar series on open science and research improvement.
After work session with high school and college teachers. The main goals of the session were to start a dialogue and find collaborating opportunities. Could teachers use open source hardware to introduce more practical activities in STEM related curriculum?
I presented Flypi as an example on how researchers can leverage the open source movement, to build their own tools, update the design of existing ones, and how this can be used to help development.