Luka Opasic: Evolutionary Biology and Detecting Diseases Through Eye Movements

Things we talked about

• How he got into evoluationary biology
• How become the first doctor to join the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology as a researcher
• His research on modelling cancer in software
• Why he moved back from the US (doing research at the Cleveland Clinic) to Germany
• How he managed to leave research to join the startup industry, getting his job at Bulbitech
• What he did at Bulbitech: Detecting diseases through eye movements
• Why writing skills are so important

Links As Mentioned In The Podcast

• Luka on LinkedIn
• CancerSim: The software (python package) which Luka co-developed for the simulation of cancer.
• Bulbitech: The startup Luka worked at, building software for detecting diseases through eye movements.