Congratulations to Dr Andrea Luppi in Emmanuel Stamatakis’ Lab, who was named as one of the finalists for the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence PhD Thesis Prize. The prize is awarded every second year at the FENS Forum and honours a young neuroscientist for his/her outstanding PhD thesis in any domain of neuroscience.
Andrea, currently a Wellcome Early Career Fellow completed his PhD Thesis entitled: “Complex, yet Resolved: Time-, Frequency-, and Information-resolved Approaches to Brain Function and Human Consciousness”.
Coming from a background in philosophy and cognitive science, he is now based at Engineering and Clinical Neurosciences and is interested in the relation between mind and (grey) matter. Specifically, his work aims to characterise how the capacity for cognition and consciousness arises from the complex interactions between brain systems, viewed as a dynamic network. To this end, he combines tools from information theory, network science and whole-brain computational modelling to study the cortical dynamics and connectivity of the brain across multiple scales and modalities (functional MRI, DTI) throughout a variety of states of altered consciousness, such as anaesthesia and disorders of consciousness, but also sleep and psychedelics. Ultimately, he aims to develop a unified understanding of how consciousness is lost, and how we can promote its recovery in patients.
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