CV

1 Personal Information

• Name: Juan Raphael Diaz Simões
• Nationality: Brazilian
• Location: Tashkent, Uzbekistan
• Birth: September 5th 1989, in São Paulo, Brazil
• Contact: juanrapha(at)gmail.com.

2 Work Experience

• Tlon – 2023/01 - Present
  Software engineer.

• Tweag I/O – 2018/09 - 2022/12
  Software engineer. I worked as a software engineering consultant for Tweag, mainly with Haskell, Nix and functional programming-related tech stacks. For more than 4 years I experienced different environments and companies, ranging from academia to banking and logistics. I was the project lead for my latest mission, a hive supporter, and an editor for the company technical blog.

• Tashkent State Dental Institute – 2020/11 - Present

  • Associate Lecturer. – 2022/09 - Present
    Teaching of physics, mathematics and informatics courses to the university’s medical and dentistry students. Part time.

  • Assistant Lecturer. – 2022/02 - 2022/08
    Teaching of physics, mathematics and informatics courses to the university’s medical and dentistry students. Part time.

  • Guest Lecturer. – 2020/11 - 2021/11
    Guest lectures on physics related to the medical and biological sciences to the university’s medical and dentistry students.

• Turin Polytechnic University in Tashkent – 2020/09 - 2021/08
  Physics lecturer. Teaching of fundamental physics courses to the university’s engineering students.

• PMC - École Polytechnique – 2018/02 - 2018/09
  Research engineer. Development of a software platform for the analysis of trajectories in two and three dimensions. Visualization of trajectories with WebGL, and of statistical results with auto-generated graphs.

• BioEmergences - CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette – 2017/11 - 2018/01
  Research engineer. Stabilization of the LineageFlow software, making its building reproducible and its deployment easier with Nix-generated Docker image.

3 Publications

• Brownian-like deviation of neighboring cells in the early embryogenesis of the zebrafish
  J. R. Diaz Simões, D. Grebenkov, P. Bourgine, N. Peyriéras
  Physical Biology – 2019/02 – DOI

• Cell Trajectory Clustering: Towards the Automated Identification of Morphogenetic Fields in Animal Embryogenesis
  J. R. Diaz Simões, D. Grebenkov, P. Bourgine, N. Peyriéras
  ICPRAM 2017 Proceedings – 2017/02 – DOI

4 Education

• PhD in Complex Systems Science – Université Paris-Saclay – 2017/10
  Thesis: A mathematical approach to embryonic morphogenesis based on spatio-temporal cell lineages
  Supervisors: Denis Grebenkov, Paul Bourgine and Nadine Peyriéras
  The thesis can be found on HAL, and the resulting sofware on GitHub.

• Masters in Complex Systems Science – École Polytechnique – 2013/07
  Thesis: Generalized Langevin equations driven by fractional Brownian noise
  The thesis can be found on here.

• Polytechnic Engineer – École Polytechnique – 2011/07
  Double diploma between the University of São Paulo in Brazil, and the École Polytechnique in France.

• Bachelor in Physics – University of São Paulo – 2011/07
  Double diploma between the University of São Paulo in Brazil, and the École Polytechnique in France.