Category: University of Sussex

Mario Pannunzi is a post doctoral research fellow at the Unversity of Sussex. After obtaining his Ph.D. in Rome, he moved to Barcelona, where he worked until 2017 with Professor Gustavo Deco, in the Computational Neuroscience Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

His approach is multidisciplinary and his research experience spans from data analysis (behavioral, neuroimaging, and neurophysiological data), experiments, and computational modeling. His main interests, until now, have been modeling human and mammals decision-making through biologically plausible neural networks, but he recently switched to a research more focused on smaller-scale systems, like bees and Drosophila.

Ho Ka Chan is a PhD student in the University of Sussex. He obtained his undergraduate degree in physics in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He then obtained his M. Phil degree in Hong Kong Baptist University. Supervised by Prof. Changsong Zhou, he studied how transfer of spike correlation of neurons is affected by synaptic properties.

Alan Diamond is a post doctoral research fellow at  the Unversity of Sussex. He will be joining this project in February 2016. He obtained his PhD researching the control and modelling of bio-inspired humanoid robots. More recently he has worked on several computational neuroscience projects buidling bio-inspired spiking neural models based on the insect olfactory system.

Prof Thomas Nowotny is leading the team at the University of Sussex focusing on the computational modelling aspects of the project.

Thomas obtained his PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Leipzig in 2001 and after working at UCSD for 5 years moved to the University of Sussex in 2007 where he is now a Professor of Informatics.

His interest include Chemical Sensing, Computational Neuroscience, Dynamic Clamp, Electronic Nose, GPU Computing, High Performance Computing, Insects, Ion channels, Machine Learning (AI), Neural networks, Novel Computing Paradigms, Olfaction, Robotics, and Systems Neuroscience.