Thanakrit Phanusopha

About

Proactive nursing student combining clinical dedication with a passion for social innovation and technology. Leadership experience, a strong background in sustainability and international cooperation, and a habit of shipping real things.

Experience

• Chief Operating Officer (COO) · KnowRoots2025 – present

  • Connecting the world with Indigenous communities across Asia.
  • Thailand indigenous program director; started a donation drive
  • Directed and edited the documentary
  • Created the personality test and built the website
  • Funded by National University of Singapore

  knowroots.org/

• Founder · OtterEng2026 – present

  • Freemium TOEIC mock tests with Thai explanations and a real timed simulator.
  • Built the website and wrote the content
  • Server-side timer, full mock tests across all parts, per-part score breakdown

  ottereng.online/

• Project lead · The Goal Diggers · Watts & Wealth2025 – present

  • Energy-literacy online board game on the energy transition, climate policy and the SDGs.
  • Unity game developer: mechanics, assets and art direction
  • Ported to the web; built the website and led public relations
  • Funded by Mahidol University

  wattsandwealth.online/

• Solo builder · research project · Fly Clock Explorer2026 – present

  • A rotatable 3D map of the fruit fly's body-clock neurons, built from the public male CNS connectome, with a beginner-friendly learning mode.
  • Analysed 150M+ synapse records to map how clock neurons connect to dopamine and hormone cells
  • Built a 3D brain and a wire-it-yourself game that checks your guesses against the real wiring
  • Early-stage and not peer reviewed. Data: Janelia / Google male CNS v1.0 (CC BY 4.0)

  Interactive demo on this portfolio site

• Community & Sustainability Lead · Medalverse2026

  • Education-tech startup. External affairs and the sustainability framework.

• Staff · Bangkok Metropolitan Children and Youth Council2023 – 2024

  • Organised events under Bangkok Metropolitan, guest speaker, policy discussions and dialogues.

• Staff · Youth representative · My Home Paws Environmental Network2023 – 2024

  • Youth representative to the GCNT forum 2023 at UN ESCAP, UN Bangkok Regional Hub, on environment and biodiversity policy.

Education

Bachelor of Nursing Science, Mahidol University, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital2024 – now

Science – Mathematics program, Triamudom Suksa School2021 – 2024

Clinical experience

Clinical rotations across most specialties. Medicine · Surgery · Psychiatric · Pediatrics · Oncology · Operating Room (Scrub Nurse) and more.

Offered: 1-month Nursing & Midwifery internship, UTS Sydney

Languages

English (Fluent, TOEIC 965/990 · IELTS 7.5) · Thai (Native) · Japanese (Intermediate)

Skills

Cross-Cultural Communication · Digital Literacy · Multimedia Production · External Affairs · Policy Advocacy · Public Speaking · Community Outreach · Regenerative Development · Tech & Design · Grant Acquisition · Choir baritone

Global engagements

• Asian Undergraduate Symposium & Regen Asia Summit 2025 — Singapore (Nominated by Mahidol University)
• Mahidol Mobility MAPs Grantee projects — Singapore (Organised by Mahidol University)
• Ainu Foundation interview — Japan (KnowRoots delegate)

Goals after graduation

After graduating I want to take what I've learned on the wards into medical AI: a master's in health AI or data science, ideally on a scholarship.

• In progress: Fly Clock Explorer: checking my analysis against the literature, then a public write-up
• In progress: Applying for MIMIC-IV access to start a project on nurse-charted ICU data (sleep and delirium)
• Goal: Master's-level study in medical AI / health data science

Why a nursing student cares about a fly's clock

• Sleep and body-clock biology is shared across species: a review of fly sleep concludes its regulating principles are largely conserved from flies to mammals (Shafer & Keene, 2021). The fly is a model, not a patient.
• On the wards, sleepiness is one of the most common complaints of night-shift nurses and is linked to reduced alertness and decision-making (Alfonsi et al., 2021).
• In intensive care, patients' sleep is broken up by alarms, bright lights and care tasks. Whether protecting sleep prevents delirium is still unsettled (Kamdar et al., 2016).

The explorer maps a fly's circuit and does not study these clinical problems. The link is my motivation, not a finding.

Shafer OT, Keene AC. The regulation of Drosophila sleep. Current Biology. 2021;31(1):R38-R49. Alfonsi V, Scarpelli S, Gorgoni M, Pazzaglia M, Giannini AM, De Gennaro L. Sleep-related problems in night shift nurses: towards an individualized interventional practice. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 2021;15:644570. Kamdar BB, Martin JL, Needham DM, Ong MK. Promoting sleep to improve delirium in the ICU. Critical Care Medicine. 2016;44(12):2290-2291.

Choir

• MU Choir (Baritone) — Liaoning International Choral Festival, Sep 2026
• MU Choir (Baritone) — CantaRode International Choral Festival & Competition, May 2027