A summer with google at the land of the in-Between

Almost a year ago I started collaborating with the Compiler Research group through the Google Summer of Code programme. What I expected to be a technical collaboration quickly turned into a real cross-disciplinary adventure. This time I found myself advising not only on programming and mechanistic models, but also on the biology behind the system — a beautiful reminder that the most interesting scientific problems rarely belong to just one field.

Together we built CARTopiaX, a platform that combines my agent-based model with BioDynaMo to explore biological questions, with the long-term hope that this kind of work might one day help guide therapies all the way to the patient. It was one of those projects where physics, computation and biology kept talking to each other until something meaningful started to emerge.

They kindly invited me to write a blog post about something I care deeply about: the importance of cross-disciplinary research. The piece was published on their website, but I wanted to share it here as well for those of you who wander through this corner of the internet with me.

Writing it was a real pleasure. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed putting those thoughts into words.

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