Computational neuroscientist (PhD, UCL) building ML for brain health and human behaviour. I publish the science, then ship the thing, usually in a weekend.
Ten products, each with a live URL and a public repo. Eight were built at hackathons or innovation challenges in one to five days; one, Stuckato, is an ongoing business with my sister, a professional violinist and teacher. Newest first.
PhD in computational neuroscience, UCL (2025), with Hugo Spiers. MSc Translational Neuroscience, Imperial College London (2021). BSc Neuroscience, First Class, University of Edinburgh (2020).
My doctoral work sits between spatial cognition and machine learning. I built a custom multiplayer Minecraft environment in Java to record two people navigating together while their prefrontal activity was measured with fNIRS, a 32-participant dual-brain study. Separately, I modelled a navigation-app dataset of more than 800 players to ask how sleep, driving, gaming and GPS reliance shape the way people find their way. Alongside the PhD I led collaborations with Arup and RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden) that turned LLM-rated free-text responses and behavioural data into architectural decisions built at two sites.
The through-line is the same one as the products: take a behaviour that matters and build a model, or a tool, that changes what someone can do.
Competitive research programmes in three countries during the PhD, an invite-only founder fellowship, and the prizes the products have won.
I sing tenor and play the cello. The concert diary below shows my next five concerts, with the rest of the season underneath.
| Date | Work | Venue | With |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Oct | Sanctuary | Smith Square Hall | Purcell Singers with Matthew Barley |
| 30 Oct | The Listeners | Barbican Hall | BBC Symphony Chorus |
| 15 Nov | When David Heard | Smith Square Hall | Purcell Singers |
| 29 Nov | Britten A Ceremony of Carols | Brighton Corn Exchange | Purcell Singers |
| 4 Dec | Mendelssohn | Barbican Hall | BBC Symphony Chorus |
| 18 Dec | Britten A Ceremony of Carols | St James's, Sussex Gardens | Purcell Singers |
| 29 Jan 2027 | Berlioz The Damnation of Faust | Barbican Hall | BBC Symphony Chorus |
| 14 Mar 2027 | Ravel Daphnis et Chloé | Barbican Hall | BBC Symphony Chorus |
| 24 Apr 2027 | Elgar The Dream of Gerontius | Royal Festival Hall | London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Edward Gardner |
| 28 May 2027 | Liszt A Faust Symphony | Barbican Hall | BBC Symphony Chorus |
Canon 1300D, on foot, in whichever city I happen to be in: Boston and New York, Oslo, Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Amsterdam, and one from the Bavarian Alps.
Open to research and engineering roles where the model has to work in someone's life, not just in a paper. Happy to talk about a hackathon team, a collaboration, or a concert.