AMANDA MATTHES

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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 am interested in any work that could have a large positive impact on humans or other animals. Currently, I am particularly interested in developing better technologies (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.

I am open to jobs in research, engineering and science communication as well as entrepreneurship opportunities. Please reach out if you know of a role that I might be a good fit for.

My most recent project involved co-developing SnapperGPS, an open-source, low-cost, low-power GNSS location data logging system, specifically developed for tracking wild animals. My supervisor is Prof Alex Rogers.


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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