AMANDA MATTHES
E-mail me at amanda.matthes@gmail.com
about me
I am a final-year PhD student at the University of Oxford with the CDT in Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems (AIMS CDT). I have an undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Heidelberg, where I wrote my thesis on superscalar out-of-order processors. I have recently started working as an engineer at Amodo Design.
Generally, I am interested in any work that could have a large positive impact on humans or other animals. Currently, I think a lot about how to develop better tools (hardware and software) for ecology research. I would be especially excited to support work that aims to better understand (or maybe even improve) the welfare of wild animals.
things I am doing at the moment
- I am finishing up my DPhil aka PhD at the University of Oxford
- I am an engineer at Amodo Design
- I restarted and run EA Sheffield
- I write monthly-ish paper round-ups for the Open Source Solutions Group on WILDLABS
links to things I have done in the past
- SnapperGPS - a small, low-cost, low-power location logging system for wildlife tracking
- a mini report on space debris - is it a problem and what can we do about it?
- my BSc thesis about my implementation of a superscalar out-of-order processor pipeline in System Verilog
- some old lecture notes I took during my undergraduate degree that others have found useful
- my printables account where I sometimes upload 3D designs
updates
| Date | News |
|---|---|
| 07/2024 | attending the UFAW International Animal Welfare Conference |
| 06/2024 | attending the NYU wild animal welfare summit |
| 05/2024 | attending EAG London |
| 10/2023 | resuming my PhD degree to write up my dissertation |
| 08/2023 | attending EAGx NYC |
| 04/2023 | suspending my degree until Michaelmas Term (October 2023) |
| 03/2023 | attending EAGx Cambridge |
| 02/2023 | the Journal of Open Hardware published our hardware paper on SnapperGPS |
| 10/2022 | at the Global Gathering for Open Science Hardware, GOSH 2022 |
| 05/2022 | deploying SnapperGPS with Manx Shearwaters on Skomer, Wales |
| 03/2022 | giving a talk at the International Sea Turtle Symposium (ISTS) about tracking nesting sea turtles with SnapperGPS |
| 12/2021 | our SnapperGPS work is featured on the cover of the 2021 Winter edition of Inspired Research, the twice-yearly newsletter published by the Department of Computer Science at University of Oxford |
| 08/2021 | on fieldwork in Cape Verde to track endangered loggerhead sea turtles with FMB |
| 05/2021 | voted in as Arts & Culture Officer of the Keble College MCR |
| 05/2021 | voted in as the new Novice Captain of the Powerlifting Club |
| 02/2021 | started hosting our Wednesday talks for the Physics Society |
| 04/2020 | 10-week project with the Satellite Applications Catapult on space debris |
| 03/2020 | voted in as Publicity Officer for the Oxford University Physics Society |
| 10/2019 | started my 4-year PhD at the University of Oxford with the AIMS CDT |
| 08/2019 | at QuID 2019, a summer school on quantum information at the ETH Zurich |
| 07/2019 | interning at the CERN data centre as part of their Summer Student programme |
| 06/2019 | defended my BSc thesis on superscalar out-of-order processing |