Summary
Leonardo Restivo is a behavioral neuroscientist and technical leader with 13 years of experience running a neuro-behavioral analysis unit at the University of Lausanne, where he designs experiments, manages behavioral platforms, and develops machine-learning pipelines to extract information from video. He combines deep expertise in behavioral task design, experimental statistics, and data visualization with hands-on software and product work from co-founding an information-design company that powered a conference platform used by over 20,000 users. His background spans academic research in functional connectomics, memory and neurogenesis to applied engineering in web analytics, UI/UX and automated behavior quantification. Comfortable bridging lab and product teams, he emphasizes open science and reproducible workflows while bringing visual analytics training to make complex results immediately interpretable. An unusual strength is his ability to invent behavioral assays and then operationalize them into scalable, ML-driven analysis pipelines.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Research and Experimental Psychology, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Research and Experimental Psychology at Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'
Ph.D., Neuroscience, Ph.D., Neuroscience at Université de Provence (Aix-Marseille I)
Ph.D., Neuroscience, Ph.D., Neuroscience at Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Visual analytics, Continuing studies, Visual analytics, Continuing studies at OCAD University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of Rome Tor Vergata
Italian, English, French