UPF Barcelona

Department of Information and Communication Technologies

Tànger, 122-140

08018 Barcelona

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Driven with a genuine scientific curiosity, I strive towards unraveling the mechanisms along which our brain operates. My research focuses on synchronization phenomena of neural networks. Synchronous interaction of thousands of neurons is paradigmatic for processing and transmitting information within and across different brain areas. To this end, I study how microscopic dynamics translates into emergent macroscopic behavior and how different subnetworks interact with each other. I have used phase reduction approaches to investigate dynamic correlations of oscillatory activity in the human brain. Moreover, I combine ideas from computational neuroscience, nonlinear dynamics, bifurcation theory, and statistical mechanics, to study neuronal population models that are capable of generating large-scale oscillations. More recently, I have started working on stochastic neural dynamics, striving towards mean-field theories for populations of spiking neurons both in cortical areas as well as in the spinal cord.


I am always keen on applying our modeling framework in interdisciplinary empirical projects and testing our mathematical techniques against experimental data - ideas range from describing LFP recordings or Neuropixels probes up to neuroprosthetics and brain-machine interfaces. Feel free to contact me in case you are interested!


Check also my older websites as one of the COSMOS ESRs, in the Coordination Dynamics group at the VU Amsterdam, and in the Nonlinear and Biomedical Physics group at Lancaster University.


This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101032806.