Niccolò Bonacchi
Assistant Professor at Champalimaud Foundation
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolNiccolò Bonacchi is an Assistant Professor and neuroscientist-engineer based in Lisbon with 11 years of experience bridging academic research, data architecture and teaching. He progressed from PhD student to postdoc and visiting scientist at the Champalimaud Foundation while designing data infrastructure for the International Brain Laboratory, combining deep domain expertise in neuroscience with practical software and data systems skills. As an educator he has taught neurobiology and programming and now holds a faculty role at ISPA, reflecting a strong commitment to training the next generation of interdisciplinary scientists. His background includes hands-on IT and AV work and early rehab tech training, unusual for an academic, which gives him a pragmatic, user-centered approach to research tooling. He is skilled at turning complex experimental questions into reproducible computational workflows and scalable data architectures.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience at Universidade Nova de LisboaMSc, Psychobiology, 20/20 (summa cum laude), MSc, Psychobiology, 20/20 (summa cum laude) at ISPA - Instituto Universitário
Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, English, French
Github Skills (83)
python10
language-server-protocol10
python-development10
qt10
electrophysiology10
shared-libraries10
neuroscience10
anaconda10
pyqt10
development-environment10
spyder10
ide10
brain-computer-interface10
syncthing9
django9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
int-brain-lab/iblrig
Apr 2018 - Jun 2022
Main repository for IBL rig code
Contributions:1 review, 2306 commits, 25 PRs in 4 years 2 months
iblrig
Cogitate-consortium/cogitate-msp1
May 2023 - Feb 2025
Repository containing code related to the Cogitate Main Scientific Paper 1.
Contributions:6 reviews, 6 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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