I’m in the first year of my PhD with Sadra Sadeh’s Lab at The Francis Crick Institute, and Oscar Marin’s Lab at The Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at King’s College London. Exploring cortical interneurons as a mechanism for regulating excitation/inhibition in cortical circuits.
find me on twitter/𝕏 @nickybuttigieg or bluesky @nickybu.bsky.social
my background and experience…
a common theme through my technical career has been the use of computational modelling to simulate physical phenomena in the world around us
- Community Lead @ Interintellect
- managed Discord community forum, published weekly newsletters, hosted events and supported hosts from around the world
- Software Engineer @ Phalanx Software Ltd
- early startup, <5 employees
- built a platform to manage and configure promotional flows and automate eligiblity and reward tracking
- stack: python, fastapi, mongodb, kafka
- deployed on aws using terraform
- managed office IT infrastructure using terraform, ansible and open-source software
- Neural Engineer Intern simulating neural signal propagation and recording along the vagus nerve @ BIOS Health Ltd
- MSc Computer Science and AI @ The University of Manchester
- machine learning, computer vision and distributed computing
- explored spiking neural networks on neuromorphic hardware for simulating grid cell activity during spatial navigation (click for more info)
- Backend Software Engineer working on APIs and web applications @ Ricston Ltd and Betsson Group
- BSc Software Development @ The University of Malta
- designed a java-based tool for constructing and visualising bidirectional scattering distribution functions for photorealistic rendering of materials (click for more info)