Marco Aqil
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolMarco Aqil is a postdoctoral researcher based in Berkeley who blends theoretical physics, applied mathematics, and computational cognitive neuroscience to model semantic information processing in the human brain. With eight years of research experience culminating in a PhD from the Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging, his work spans computational models of vision, large-scale neuroimaging analyses, and the neural effects of psychedelics including psilocybin. He holds a track record of high-impact publications (PNAS, Science Advances, Nature Communications) linking divisive normalization and chemoarchitecture to perceptual computations. A former founder and chair of a nonprofit advancing academic psychedelic research, he pairs rigorous modeling with translational curiosity about altered states. Currently an NWO Rubicon postdoc at UC Berkeley, he develops novel fMRI-based decoding methods for spontaneous thought and semantic processing. Colleagues describe him as a quantitatively rigorous scientist who brings physicist-style modeling to messy cognitive neuroscience problems.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Of Science with Honours Theoretical Physics, Bachelor Of Science with Honours Theoretical Physics at The University of EdinburghMaster of Science Mathematics (Biomedical specialization), Master of Science Mathematics (Biomedical specialization) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Exchange Student (Third Year) Theoretical Physics, Exchange Student (Third Year) Theoretical Physics at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (17)
routines10
connectivity9
image-registration9
mri9
bids8
surface8
neuroimaging8
electrophysiology8
topological-data-analysis7
nifti7
neuroscience7
python7
scientific-computing6
algorithms6
visualization6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
marcoaqil/PRF_Experiment_Checkers
Apr 2019 - Mar 2023
Repository for a simple PRF mapping experiment, making use of exptools2
Contributions:1 PR, 40 pushes in 4 years
mapping
VU-Cog-Sci/prfpytools
Dec 2021 - Dec 2023
Contributions:1 release, 82 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years
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