Marcel Stimberg
Research Engineer at ISIR / Sorbonne Université
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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RockstarMarcel Stimberg is a research engineer in computational neuroscience with 17 years of software engineering experience, based in Paris. He combines deep domain knowledge of spiking neural networks with pragmatic back-end development, notably contributing refactors and code-generation improvements to the widely used open-source Brian2 simulator. Marcel focuses on maintainable, backward-compatible designs and internal tooling that keep complex scientific codebases robust and extensible. Colleagues rely on him to translate theoretical models into reliable simulation infrastructure that scales for research use. He brings a rare blend of long-term engineering discipline and hands-on neuroscience tooling expertise that accelerates both experimentation and reproducible results.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
refactoring10
python10
refactor10
performance-optimization9
cprogramming-language7
testing7
c-language7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
brian-team/brian2
Oct 2014 - Jan 2023
Brian is a free, open source simulator for spiking neural networks.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:161 reviews, 3181 commits, 916 PRs in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Marcel's commits primarily focused on refactoring and improving the codebase of the Brian2 library. The changes included updates to code generation and internal variable handling. They also involved a focus on improving code style and ensuring backwards compatibility.
spiking-neural-networkspythonneurosciencesciencedifferential-equations
conda-forge/pylems-feedstock
Apr 2017 - Apr 2025
A conda-smithy repository for pylems.
Contributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 5 pushes in 8 years 1 month
conda
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