Richard Bowman
Royal Society University Research Fellow & Proleptic Reader at WaterScope UK limited
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.
13 years of coding experience
M.Sci and B.A., Physics, M.Sci and B.A., Physics at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (97)
python10
gtk10
python-scripts10
microscopy10
qt10
raspberry-pi-camera10
open-hardware10
science10
openscad10
translation10
raycasting10
jupyter-notebook10
arduino-nano10
printable10
matplotlib10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
rwb27/usaf_analysis
Nov 2017 - May 2022
Python scripts to analyse images of USAF test targets and edges
Contributions:41 commits, 3 PRs, 25 pushes in 4 years 6 months
python-scripts
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
fastapi
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