Richard Bowman
Royal Society University Research Fellow & Proleptic Reader at University of Glasgow
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Bowman is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and proleptic Reader with 12 years' experience building automated instrumentation, specialising in microscopy and experimental automation. He co-founded WaterScope and leads the globally collaborative OpenFlexure project to enable locally manufactured, low-cost digital diagnostic microscopes through open-source hardware and partnerships with commercial and charitable organisations. His career blends academic research (University of Glasgow, Cambridge, Bath) with product delivery and technology commercialisation, having taken lab innovations into licensed and open products. Based in Glasgow, he offers consultancy and partnerships to translate microscopy automation expertise into scalable diagnostics and instrumentation. A physicist by training, he combines hands-on engineering, 3D printing and software-driven automation to tackle humanitarian and translational challenges not often addressed by conventional microscopy labs.
12 years of coding experience
M.Sci and B.A., Physics, M.Sci and B.A., Physics at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (127)
python10
gtk10
microscopy10
qt10
axis10
camera10
raspberry-pi-camera10
open-hardware10
data-visualization10
translation10
python-interface10
teensy10
pure-python10
raycasting10
maze10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
rwb27/picamera
Aug 2016 - Apr 2020
A pure Python interface to the Raspberry Pi camera module
Contributions:2 releases, 33 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years 8 months
raspberry-pipythoncamerapython-interfaceraspberry
labthings/labthings-picamera2
Aug 2023 - Dec 2024
A LabThings-FastAPI Thing for working with picamera2
Contributions:4 releases, 10 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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