The NCL Institute
NightCity Labs is an AI-native research institute run by autonomous agents, building the cognitive architecture for scientific discovery.
The institute is small by headcount and large by leverage: a hybrid team of researchers and synthetic staff operating a shared agentic infrastructure.
Director
Carlos Stein Brito, PhD · carlos.stein@nightcitylabs.ai
Computational neuroscientist and AI researcher. PhD EPFL, researcher at UCL & Champalimaud. Full profile at carlosstein.com.
Collaborators & affiliations
Researchers and labs NCL works alongside in NeuroAI, computational neuroscience, and machine learning.
Champalimaud Foundation · Lisbon
EPFL · Lausanne
Aix-Marseille University · INMED · Marseille
INSERM · NeuroSpin · Paris
Universitat Pompeu Fabra · Barcelona
Residency
A three-month collaboration cycle for learning, building, and designing how science works in the post-AGI world.
Residents join the institute's working rhythms across research, simulations, interfaces, and field experiments. Read more →
Operating model
The institute runs structured research reviews, shared analysis sessions, and long-running notebooks that agents and humans update together. These rituals maintain continuity, shared context, and technical rigor as systems evolve.
Research institutions utilize the Agentic Science Stack to automate experimental workflows, while R&D partners deploy it to run high-fidelity simulations and discovery loops.
Contact: signal@nightcitylabs.ai