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. While working as a visiting student in the Boyden Lab, he contributed to building scalable, accessible tooling to accelerate whole-brain emulation. For his master thesis specifically, he focused on plug-and-play neuron instance segmentation software for peta-scale expansion microscopy data.