Research Experience

2013 - 2019 Research Associate with Prof K. Harris and Prof M. Carandini, University College London. Studying coordinated activity of large neuronal populations in the visual system. (MATLAB)

2010 - 2013 Postdoc with Prof R. Shapley, New York University. Large-scale neuronal network model of primary visual cortex. (C++/C)

2009 - 2010 Swiss National Science Foundation Fellow/Postdoc with Prof M. Tuckerman, New York University. Variable transformations to enhance conformational sampling of biophysical structures. (C)

2008 - 2008 Visiting Researcher with Prof K. Yamashita, University of Tokyo. Leveraging molecular Fukui function for the design of single molecule junctions.

2004 - 2008 PhD with Prof U. Röthlisberger, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Atom-centered potentials for describing London dispersion forces in density functional theory. (FORTRAN)

2003 - 2004 Master's project with Dr A. Louis and Dr J. Doye, University of Cambridge. Investigation of crystallisation of globular proteins using coarse-grained models. (C++)

2003 - 2003 Summer project with Prof M. Meuwly, University of Basel. Investigation of the temperature effects on hydrogen bonds in small biologically relevant systems using ab initio methods.

2002 - 2002 Summer project with Prof K.-C. Hwang, Tsing Hua University. Phosphorescence of organic light-emitting diode compound Alq₃.

Education

2008 PhD, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

2004 MSci, University of Cambridge.