Xavier Campillo
Associate Professor
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolXavier Campillo is an Associate Professor and Ramón y Cajal fellow whose transdisciplinary career bridges computer science, data science and heritage studies to investigate how computational methods can illuminate the human past. With a first-class Computer Science degree and a PhD in Social Sciences, he has led research groups at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and taught computational archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, developing scalable agent-based tools like the Pandora framework. He combines academic rigor with practical impact as the founder of indie studio Murphy’s Toast Games, creating educational games that translate research into interactive experiences. His work uniquely emphasizes critical reflection on how digital methods shape societal narratives about history, and he routinely builds the bespoke software needed to run large-scale cultural simulations. Based in Barcelona, he brings 13+ years of multidisciplinary experience integrating complex-systems thinking, high-performance computing and game design.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universitat Pompeu FabraDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Social Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Social Sciences at Universitat de Barcelona
English, Catalan, Spanish
Github Skills (30)
pandora10
simulations10
simulation9
scale9
agent8
rome8
large-scale8
lua7
metal6
bayesian6
android6
windows6
development-tools6
ios6
cocos2d-x5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
xrubio/models
Sep 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:30 commits, 10 PRs, 18 pushes in 10 months
deep-learningpublishedpythonmachine-learning
xrubio/abm4s3
Jun 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:19 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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