For his medical school Bachelor’s thesis at Charité Berlin, Tim imaged and analyzed surgically extracted whole fly brains from genetically modified Drosophila, studying how dopamine receptors affect activity in fly memory circuits. He then pivoted into a CS master’s at UCL to become a better engineer. Now, he’s working as a visiting student in the Boyden Lab, building scalable, accessible tooling to accelerate whole-brain emulation. For his master thesis specifically, he is developing plug-and-play neuron instance segmentation software for peta-scale expansion microscopy data.