Gonzalo García-castro
Postdoctoral Researcher at Fundació de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolGonzalo García-castro is a cognitive scientist and postdoctoral researcher based in Barcelona with eight years of experience modeling early language acquisition using Bayesian methods. He develops formal, reproducible models of vocabulary growth in bilingual toddlers and pairs them with rigorous code-based workflows that span data collection to visualization and reporting. His hands-on experimental expertise includes fNIRS, eye-tracking, behavioural testing in infants and comparative work with Long-Evans rats, bridging developmental psycholinguistics and evolutionary perspectives. Gonzalo combines advanced statistical tooling in R with open science practices to make his research reproducible and accessible to other researchers and "future him." He holds a PhD in Biomedicine from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and an MSc in Neurosciences, reflecting a strong interdisciplinary foundation across psychology, neuroscience, and computational modeling. An atypical strength is his focus on engineering robust research pipelines as a core part of scientific contribution, not merely an afterthought.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Psychology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Psychology at Universidad de OviedoCourse Introduction to Neuroscience: From Molecule to Behavior, Course Introduction to Neuroscience: From Molecule to Behavior at Radboud UniversityMaster of Sciences - MS Neurosciences, Master of Sciences - MS Neurosciences at Universitat de BarcelonaDoctorado Biomedicina, Doctorado Biomedicina at Universitat Pompeu FabraBachillerato Servicios sanitarios/Ciencias de la salud general, Bachillerato Servicios sanitarios/Ciencias de la salud general at Colegio San Ignacio de Oviedo
Spanish, English, French, Catalan
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Github Skills (56)
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database8
bayesian-inference8
que8
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
gongcastro/psicotuiterbot
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
Un bot que retuitea tuits que contienen #psicotuiter o #psicotwitter
Contributions:2 releases, 8 PRs, 124 pushes in 1 year
twitter-bottelegram-botbotquetwitter
rOpenSpain/comidistar
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
Paquete de R para interactuar con la base de datos de las puntuaciones de las Catas de Expertos de El Comidista.
Contributions:2 releases, 46 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year
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