Homepage: Matthias H Hennig

Dr Matthias H Hennig

MRC CDA Fellow and Lecturer
Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh
Informatics Forum, Room 2.31
10 Crichton Street
Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
United Kingdom
Tel +44 (0)131 650 3080 Fax (+44) (0) 131 650 6899
m.hennig [+at+] ed.ac.uk

The aim of our research is to understand how the brain achieves and maintains function and stability throughout life. As in all biological systems, in the brain important things happen simultaneously on different scales, from the sub-cellular level to entire circuits and beyond, and from milliseconds to a lifetime. We address this problem through computational modelling and the analysis of neurophysiological data. Models help us to understand the interactions between these scales, and to interpret and augment experimental findings. Specifically, our work is currently in the following areas:

Function, plasticity and homeostasis at the sub-cellular and cellular level
Stability and function in networks of neurons
Analysis of high-density multielectrode recordings

This work is funded by a CDA Fellowship from the UK Medical Research Council (MRC; 2009-2014), EC grant RENVISION (2013-2016), and research grants from the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC; 2011-2012 and 2013-2016).

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