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Kristian Adamatzky

Neuroscience PhD Student
Bath

Summary

Experienced neuroscientist with a passion for data analysis, programming, and presentation of research findings.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages

Work History

Doctoral Researcher

University of Sussex
Brighton
09.2018 - 12.2022
  • Designed a 3-year study for assessing the motivational and affective effects of cocaine and heroin use in rats.
  • Performed small animal surgery for drug self-administration experiments.
  • Optimised small animal surgery and data collection techniques.
  • Identified and categorised rodent vocalisations in audio recordings using MATLAB neural networks to obtain measures of animal affective state throughout the entire study.
  • Processed, analysed, visualised, and interpreted large data sets in R to obtain meaningful conclusions regarding subject motivation and affective state during drug self-administration.
  • Presented my research at lab meetings, seminars, and university events.
  • Managed several undergraduate and MSc students to help them collect, analyse, and interpret meaningful data for their dissertations.
  • Developed comprehensive protocols for training junior lab staff.

Tutor

University of Sussex
Brighton
09.2019 - 12.2022
  • Hosted 3x bi-weekly group tutoring sessions to help students engage active learning and critical thinking skills to apply the syllabus material to solving real-world problems.
  • Supported students with helpful essay writing advise to enable them to produce a high-quality end-of-module essay.
  • Taught students remotely using online video chat platform and other delivery channels.
  • Marking student essays to a high standard and providing feedback according to best pedagogical practices.
  • Discussed essay feedback with students to enable them to improve future essays.

Research Assistant

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Tuebingen
10.2017 - 02.2018
  • Scheduled appointments with test subjects over phone and through email.
  • Created surveys and questionnaires to collect psychophysical data.
  • Utilized motion capture technology to program computer-generated interactions between virtual avatars to collect data regarding the psychology of human action recognition.

Research Assistant

Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioural Neurobiology
Tuebingen
10.2017 - 02.2018
  • Construction and implantation of electroencephalogram (EEG) devices in mice for the collection of neural signalling data during behavioural tasks and sleep.
  • Collection of rat and mouse tissue for proteomic analysis with real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (q-RT-PCR) and immunohistochemistry.
  • Developed research protocols and procedures to produce accurate results.
  • Training of new employees to perform reliable experiments and understand the data collected.

Education

Ph.D. - Neuroscience

University of Sussex
Brighton, England
09.2018 - Current

Master of Science - Neuroscience

Graduate Training Center For Neuroscience
Tuebingen, Germany
10.2015 - 10.2017

Bachelor of Science - Neuroscience

University of Bristol
Bristol, England
09.2011 - 07.2014

Skills

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Interests

Data analysis

Game and software development

Music production

Cinematography

Graphic design

Timeline

Tutor

University of Sussex
09.2019 - 12.2022

Doctoral Researcher

University of Sussex
09.2018 - 12.2022

Ph.D. - Neuroscience

University of Sussex
09.2018 - Current

Research Assistant

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
10.2017 - 02.2018

Research Assistant

Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioural Neurobiology
10.2017 - 02.2018

Master of Science - Neuroscience

Graduate Training Center For Neuroscience
10.2015 - 10.2017

Bachelor of Science - Neuroscience

University of Bristol
09.2011 - 07.2014

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