Albert Cardona
Senior Editor at eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd.
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlbert Cardona is a multidisciplinary scientist and senior editor who blends 19+ years of open-source software engineering with a distinguished academic career in neuroscience and developmental biology. As a professor and MRC Investigator leading comparative connectomics, he builds and applies large-scale volume EM pipelines and founders of widely used tools such as Fiji, TrakEM2 and CATMAID, reflecting deep expertise in image processing, multi-threaded Java/Python development and interactive web tools. He advises and mediates complex collaborations across dozens of partners, designing incentives and win-win strategies that scale multi-team projects from data acquisition to publication. At eLife he curates and assesses high-impact manuscripts, while his lab pioneers whole-brain connectomics in insects and cephalopods using FIB-SEM and GridTape TEM. A prolific trilingual communicator and educator, he teaches biologists to script and automate image analysis and maintains a long history of impactful tutorials and community-driven software.
18 years of coding experience
Visiting Postdoc Electron microscopy imaging, Visiting Postdoc Electron microscopy imaging at MPI-CBG - Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and GeneticsUniversity of California, Los AngelesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Developmental Biology and Embryology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Developmental Biology and Embryology at Universitat de Barcelona
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Github Skills (13)
algorithm10
javas10
algorithms10
image-processing10
java10
imagej9
front-end-development9
bufferedimage6
file-format6
sift6
colorspace6
haskell6
image6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
fiji/fiji
Feb 2009 - May 2020
A "batteries-included" distribution of ImageJ :battery:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:478 commits, 1 PR, 1 branch in 11 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Albert's commits primarily involve modifying and extending the LevelSet.java class within the fiji/fiji repository. These modifications include adapting the class for headless operation, adding new functionalities such as a new parameter setting method for the GenericDialog, and also addressing stability problems in the segmentation algorithm. The commits also encompass the addition of new image processing features and features for the user interface of the plugin.
batteries-includedbatteryimagejbatteriesdocker
scijava/script-editor-jython
Dec 2020 - Mar 2022
Jython plugin for the SciJava Script Editor
Contributions:107 commits, 6 PRs, 56 pushes in 1 year 3 months
jythonpythonscijavascript-editor
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