I'm a computational neuroscientist (#Neuroscience #CompNeuro) and science reformer based at Imperial College London.
I like to build things and organisations that make it easier to do better #science.
I made the Brian spiking neural network simulator (https://briansimulator.org) with @romainbrette and @mstimberg.
I co-founded #Neuromatch with @kordinglab and a bunch of others, and the SNUFA community with @fzenke.
In my main research, I'm interested in how the brain uses spikes to carry out computations, and what advantages that might have. Increasingly, my work revolves around using methods from #MachineLearning because that finally lets us build models that actually require intelligence, the unique property of the brain I'm interested in.
I also want to make science better. Neuromatch's mission is to democratise science, and with our new open #publishing initiative (https://nmop.io) I'm hoping we'll be able to dramatically change the murky world of academic publishing.
You might (ha!) also see some political commentary from me. I'm a left-wing #anarchist.
Happy to discuss any of the above!