Maxime Beau
PhD Candidate
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMaxime Beau is a PhD candidate at UCL's Neural Computation Lab with nine years of neuroscience research experience focused on dense extracellular recordings and information transmission in the cerebellar cortex and nuclei of awake, behaving rodents. He combines experimental electrophysiology with computational modeling (NEURON, BRIAN) and maintains NeuroPyxels, an open-source Python toolkit for Neuropixels data processing. His co-authorship on high-profile papers (Nature Neuroscience, Cell Reports, Science) reflects strengths in large-scale neural recording and signal analysis, while his background in medical studies and top-ranked PACES performance underscores strong quantitative and biological foundations. He has taught advanced neuroscience courses and contributed to cross-disciplinary preprints on learning rules and pathology, signaling an interest in bridging theory and experiment. Notably, his work spans hands-on molecular techniques to high-density probe software, making him fluent across scales from ion channels to population dynamics.
9 years of coding experience
First cycle of medical school (DFGSM2 and 3), Medicine ; Biomedical Sciences, First cycle of medical school (DFGSM2 and 3), Medicine ; Biomedical Sciences at Université Paris Descartes (now Université de Paris)Master 2 (M2), Integrativ Biology and Physiology, sp. Cellular and Integrated Neuroscience, Mention Bien, Master 2 (M2), Integrativ Biology and Physiology, sp. Cellular and Integrated Neuroscience, Mention Bien at Université Pierre et Marie CurieMedical school entry exam (PACES), Sciences biologiques et biomédicales, Ranked 27/2451, Medical school entry exam (PACES), Sciences biologiques et biomédicales, Ranked 27/2451 at Université Paris Descartes
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (146)
python10
toolbox10
language-server-protocol10
office36510
deep-learning10
python-development10
qt10
electrophysiology10
matlab10
git10
jupyter10
react-select10
neuroscience10
anaconda10
obsidian10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
m-beau/phy
May 2019 - Oct 2025
Modules for manual spike sorting GUIs, ephys data analysis, visualization
Contributions:23 pushes in 6 years 5 months
data-analysispythontiddlywikivisual-analyticsdata-viz
m-beau/NeuroPyxels
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
NeuroPyxels (npyx) is a python library built for electrophysiologists using Neuropixels electrodes. This package stems from the need of a pythonist who really did not want to transition to MATLAB to work with Neuropixels: it features a suite of core utility functions for loading, processing and plotting Neuropixels data.
Contributions:3 releases, 15 reviews, 920 commits in 3 years 8 months
matlabpythonelectrophysiology
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