Thibaut Pollina
Directeur De La Technologie at PlanktoScope
Morlaix, Brittany, France
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Top SchoolThibaut Pollina is a technology leader and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building open-source hardware and software for aquatic science and education. As founder and CTO of FairScope and inventor of the PlanktoScope, he designs affordable, modular microscopes and computer vision systems that enable long-term, distributed monitoring of plankton biodiversity. His background spans ecology, optics, embedded electronics and AI, informed by hands-on field deployments from research vessels to global citizen-science networks. He has translated lab-grade instrumentation into replicable tools used by researchers, NGOs and educators, publishing and open-sourcing projects that emphasize transparency and collaboration. Based in Morlaix, Brittany, he combines oceanographic engineering experience from Tara and Stanford with a pragmatic focus on appropriate technology and community-driven science. An unusual strength is his ability to bridge microscopy hardware design with scalable software pipelines, making advanced imaging accessible outside traditional labs.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Licence, Biologie Ecologie, Licence, Biologie Ecologie at Université de Perpignan Via DomitiaLicence, Hydrogéologie, Licence, Hydrogéologie at Université d'Avignon et des Pays de VaucluseMaster - Biologie Santé Ecologie, Environnement et Gestion de la Biodiversité, Master - Biologie Santé Ecologie, Environnement et Gestion de la Biodiversité at Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes
French, English
Github Skills (19)
prediction-model10
mercury10
water10
imaging10
power-management10
raspberry-pi-camera10
quantile10
ocean10
microscopy10
toolbox9
fourier-transform9
diffraction9
hpc-applications9
raspberry9
science9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tpollina/Transcriptome
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 154 pushes, 5 branches in 6 days
KonkArLab/PlanktoScope
Feb 2023 - Nov 2023
Low-cost fluidic microscope for citizen science
Contributions:2 PRs in 9 months
low-costcitizen-sciencemicroscopescience
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