Alessandro Felder
Senior Research Software Engineer at UCL
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlessandro Felder is a Senior Research Software Engineer based in England with 11 years of experience at the intersection of computational biomechanics and image analysis, focused on bone tissue. He combines a PhD in microstructural bone scaling and biomimetics with a strong computational mathematics background from ETH Zürich to deliver patient-specific simulations and research software. His career spans academic and research roles at UCL, the Royal Veterinary College and Inria, where he worked on cardiac amyloidosis simulation and numerical methods for physics students. Alessandro excels at translating complex biological problems into robust code and reproducible workflows, often contributing to interdisciplinary teams that bridge biology, imaging and software engineering. A detail that sets him apart is his blend of hands-on teaching experience and long-term commitment to research software development, enabling clear communication of technical methods to diverse audiences.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Swiss Matura, Swiss Matura at Kantonsschule Hohe Promenade ZurichPhD Microstructural Components of Bone Tissue - Scaling and Biomimetics, PhD Microstructural Components of Bone Tissue - Scaling and Biomimetics at The Royal Veterinary CollegeMaster's degree Computational and Applied Mathematics, Master's degree Computational and Applied Mathematics at ETH Zürich
German, Italian, English, French, Arabic, Chinese
Github Skills (126)
python10
image-processing10
image-viewer10
forge10
perl10
robust10
microscopy10
data-streams10
image-analysis10
atlas10
matlab10
crowd10
markup-language10
api10
resnet10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
brainglobe/brainglobe-utils
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Shared general purpose tools for the BrainGlobe project
Contributions:2 releases, 59 reviews, 39 PRs in 1 year 5 months
brainglobe/napari-experimental
Jan 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:12 reviews, 8 PRs, 10 pushes in 11 months
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