Summary
Corban Swain is a postdoctoral researcher at MIT’s McGovern Institute who combines deep expertise in microscopy, expansion imaging, and computational multi-dimensional biological image analysis with strong engineering foundations in MATLAB and Python. He completed a PhD in 2024 in Ed Boyden’s lab focused on live imaging and expansion microscopy for neuroscience, and brings nine years of hands-on experience across microscopy system design, nanoparticle synthesis, and quantitative analysis. A former graduate instructor and tutor, he values collaborative mentorship and has taught Git, computational biology, and lab fundamentals, helping peers translate complex methods into reproducible workflows. Outside the lab he founded a photography business, applying an artistic eye to scientific imaging and emphasizing the emotional as well as technical fidelity of visual data.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering (BS), Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering (BS) at Washington University in St. Louis