AMANDA MATTHES
E-mail me at amanda.matthes@gmail.com
about me
I am an engineer at Amodo Design. I have a PhD in computer science from the University of Oxford with the CDT in Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems (AIMS CDT) and an undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Heidelberg.
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 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
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 |