Keywords
Equipment & Techniques
Science Culture
I discover and formalise design principles that govern the structure and function of neurons, neural circuits and sense organs. For this I combine an empirical approach with constraint-based modelling to see how the basic elements of circuits and sensory systems are combined to make efficient use of three limiting resources, space, materials and energy. I am currently investigating the economic benefits of circuit motifs and the ways in which the metabolic costs of photoreceptors shape entire eyes.
