Michał Szczepanik
Michał graduated with BSc and MSc in Neuroinformatics, an interdisciplinary program at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw. This is where he started using Python, as a first-year-student, back in 2011.
He completed his PhD at the Laboratory of Brain Imaging (LOBI), Nencki Institute. The PhD was part of the translational project Neural correlates of emotional contagion in humans, which applied fMRI and other methods to study observational fear conditioning. During the time, Michał became particularly interested in the data management side of neuroscience, as LOBI served as a core MRI facility.
His current work at the Psychoinformatics Group, INM-7, Forschungszentrum Jülich is in the area of research data management and research software development. It revolves around the data management software DataLad. His responsibilities include bug fixing, user support, technical writing, teaching – and sometmes just trying out new things.