About me

Bio #

I’m a Computing Scientist working on designing novel scalable algorithms in biomedical imaging.

Research interests #

My research covers quite a few topics, ranging from discrete simulation, to parallel and distributed computing, to more recently object detection and weakly supervised learning in state of the art imaging modalities such as superresolution microscopy and diffuse optical tomography. My CV can be found here, while my current publications can be found here.

Personal interests #

I’m an avid hiker, MTB’er, and in general prefer to spend long days in nature, especially in pristine landscapes near archeological traces of early human civilizations, where possible, or near wildlife, without perturbing them. You can find photos on my pixelfed page. You’d be surprised how easy it is to find these, if you know but to look. I love the work by the openstreetmap community (OSM), and try to improve maps where I can. At home I enjoy reading philosophy, especially from different, sometimes dormant cultures.

About the name #

One of my interests is classical history. The name of the website refers to a what if scenario in the late Roman Republic. What if Sertorius, and not Sulla, won the civil war? Would the Roman republic have survived, and how would European history look if that had happened? I condone neither Sertorius, nor Sulla, but both had very strong visions on what they perceived as what should happen with the Roman state, though neither’s changes ended up lasting long.

Given that I frequently work with what if perturbations to complex dynamical systems from very limited information, it’s a thought exercise that at an intellectual level is interesting to think on.