Dr. Daniel Manson is a neuroscientist-turned-developer based in London.

At the moment, he is a software engineer at the London-based  LandInsight - a company providing services for land developers in England and Wales.

But back in the day, he was a Neuroscience PhD student at the University College London. There he worked in the lab of the 2014 Nobel Prize Winner John O’Keeffe under the supervision of Dr. Caswell Barry. 

Daniel started developing software while still in the academic quarters. During his PhD he managed not only to perform  his own experiments, but also to contribute to the community with his excellent  waveform GUI for hippocampal and entorhinal electrophysiology data.

In this episode, we discuss

--> why Daniel decided to leave academia

--> how his days at on the job differ from the daily grind of the PhD

--> why working for a start-up is sometimes like playing a strategy game

and more!