Nikoloz Sirmpilatze
Senior Research Software Engineer at Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNikoloz Sirmpilatze is a Senior Research Software Engineer and neuroscientist based in London with nine years of experience translating large-scale neuroimaging data into reproducible scientific insight. Trained as an MD and PhD in neuroscience, he blends clinical perspective with computational rigor to build open, collaborative tools for studying brain function and behaviour. He has held progressive research software roles at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre and the Neuroinformatics Unit, and previously led postdoctoral and doctoral projects at the Deutsches Primatenzentrum. Nikoloz specializes in quantitative analysis pipelines and free open-source software that make complex datasets more accessible to the community. His background uniquely positions him to bridge experimental neuroscience, software engineering, and community-driven science.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) Medicine, Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) Medicine at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Neuroscience at The University of Göttingen
Greek, English, Georgian, German, Russian
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Github Skills (96)
motion-tracking10
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microscopy10
behavior10
mri10
conda10
neuroscience10
medicine10
sphinx-extension10
segmentation10
neurons9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
neuroinformatics-unit/slides-behavioural-projects-overview
Sep 2023 - Oct 2025
Slides giving an overview of NIU's behavioural analysis projects.
Contributions:3 releases, 7 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years
niksirbi/niksirbi.github.io
Feb 2024 - May 2026
My personal website made with quarto
Contributions:3 reviews, 9 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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