Camillo Moschner, PhD

What I'm building

I'm one of PyLabRobot's core developers, the open-source, hardware-agnostic SDK for lab automation, with 100+ merged contributions. Most of my work is on the Hamilton STAR liquid-handler backend — 96-head pipetting, the iSWAP robotic arm (motion, kinematics, gripping), liquid-level detection, and integrating the instrument's firmware command by command. I also build the tools around that work and take part in the PyLabRobot community.

Background

I hold a PhD in synthetic biology from the University of Cambridge, where I built microfluidic devices and automation to study and engineer bacteria at single-cell resolution and high throughput. I work primarily in Python, and I care about lab systems that are reliable, reproducible and understandable — software and automation you can actually trust, not a black box. I favour open tools so the people I work with aren't locked in.

What BioCam Technologies does

BioCam Technologies is two things at once. It's a consultancy — I help biotech teams and labs build automation, scientific software and visualisation (see work with me). And it's a place where I learn and teach in the open: I publish articles on automation, biological engineering and the software behind them.

If any of this is relevant to your team, I'd be glad to talk — head to work with me or get in touch.