Cortical neuron in tissue culture [Wikimedia Commons: GerryShaw(2000)]
Research
My work is in the field of computational neuroscience, which uses a combination of mathematical analysis and computation to study the brain. I am currently investigating how properties of single cell conductance-based models affect transmission of spike timing precision. Mathematically, I am most interested in questions from a dynamical systems perspective - in particular, synchronization and phase response curves in small neural networks.
"The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind."
