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Daniel Alcalá-López

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DataCamp Course Completion

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Courses

Introduction to SQL
Introduction to R
Intermediate SQL
Joining Data in SQL

My Work Experience

Where I've interned and worked during my career.

Medica Scientia Innovation Research (MEDSIR) | Apr 2021 - Present

Data Science Specialist

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Open Knowledge Foundation | Aug 2020 - Apr 2021

Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research Fellow

Together with other 7 early career researchers from different countries and fields of expertise, I'm working with the Open Knowledge Foundation to become a champion of the Frictionless Data tools and their use for scientific research. As a Fellow, I'm applying Frictionless tools to behavioural and neuroscience data to improve reproducible research workflows, as well as advocating for open science. Working closely with the Frictionless Data team, I will be leading training workshops at conferences, host events at universities and labs, and write blogs and other communications content.
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Neuromatch Academy | Jul 2020 - Jul 2020

Teaching Assistant

Neuromatch Academy is an online summer school in computational neuroscience at scale. It’s an experiment in democratising computational neuroscience education, which recruited 1500+ students from 50+ countries. I was in charge of teaching a group of 10 students (PhD students and a postdoc). My duties included: (i) receiving teacher training by seasoned educators specialised in project-based learning; (ii) helping students from diverse backgrounds get quality education; and (ii) teaching computational neuroscience and working through hands-on coding tutorials using Google Colab;

BCBL | Mar 2018 - Jun 2020

Postdoctoral Researcher

I currently work on the neuroscience of social-cognitive processes, an emerging interdisciplinary field that aims to integrate theories, methods, and insights from psychology, social cognition, and cognitive neuroscience. This involves a variety of topics, including how the brain supports the representation of social information and how this varies across the general population. The field poses a timely area of research that exploits recent developments in pattern analysis and machine learning techniques to pinpoint how information about the world is represented in the human brain, as measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). With my research I characterize how the brain handles information that is relevant for understanding social interactions, and how this relates to inter-individual variability in psychological traits that are a defining feature of neuropsychiatric conditions such as Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Uniklinik RWTH Aachen | Jun 2015 - Feb 2018

Predoctoral Researcher

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Federación Andaluza de Taekwondo | Dec 2012 - Jun 2015

Árbitro Regional

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Universidad de Sevilla | Oct 2012 - Jun 2013

Research Assistant

I conducted an electrophysiological experiment entitled: 'Extracellular, single- unit recordings of Purkinje cell activity in the cerebellum of the goldfish (Carassius auraatus) during a fear conditioning paradigm'.

Universidad de Sevilla | Oct 2011 - Jun 2012

Research Assistant

I collaborated with the Psychobiology Lab at the Experimental Psychology Department. I helped with different experiments conducting electrophysiological and behavioural tests, as well as with the analysis of the data gathered in those experiments.

My Education

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Master's degree, BiostatisticsUniversidad de Sevilla | 2020
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Medical ScienceRWTH Aachen University | 2018
Master's degree, Physiology and NeuroscienceUniversidad de Sevilla | 2014
Bachelor's degree, PsychologyUniversidad de Sevilla | 2013

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