Dylan Festa
Postdoctoral Researcher at Technical University of Munich
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolDylan Festa is a computational neuroscientist and postdoctoral researcher with a decade of experience studying neural coding and brain computation across leading European and US institutes. Trained with a PhD from Cambridge and a physics background from Università di Pisa (110/110 cum laude), he blends rigorous theoretical modeling with hands-on experimental collaboration to probe visual system representations. His postdoc roles at TUM and the Max Planck Institute build on earlier work at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he focused on neural coding in visual areas. Based in Frankfurt, he brings deep interdisciplinary fluency—spanning computational theory, data analysis, and neurophysiology—and a track record of moving ideas from theory to reproducible research. An understated strength is his ability to translate complex mathematical models into testable experiments and open, shareable code.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Neuroscience at University of CambridgeBachelor and Master's degree, Physics, 110/110 cum laude, Bachelor and Master's degree, Physics, 110/110 cum laude at Università di Pisa
Italian, English, German, Latin
Github Skills (48)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dylanfesta/HawkesSimulator.jl
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
Package to run multi-dimensional Hawkes processes with different kernels
Contributions:102 commits, 4 PRs, 143 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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dylanfesta/SmoothedSpectralAbscissa.jl
Mar 2020 - Mar 2022
Compuation of the Smoothed Spectral Abscissa (SSA) and its gradient
Contributions:2 PRs, 78 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years
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