Data analysis
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
R
MATLAB
C#
Python
Experimental design
Statistical analysis of large data sets
Presenting research
Scientific writing
Machine learning
Group tutoring
Interests
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