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About me

I am a senior researcher in the Computational Neuroscience group (https://research.tuni.fi/computational-neuroscience/ ) which is part of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology at Tampere University. I graduated electrical engineering, focusing on signal processing and communication systems, at University of Belgrade, Serbia. I received a PhD from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. During doctoral studies, I worked in the group of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems where I was trained in complex networks, machine learning and data analysis. My doctoral work focused on motor control in Parietal area 7a in the primate brain. 

I employ computational modeling, experimental data analysis and complex networks theory to explore the impact of cellular and network mechanisms on dynamical regimes and structural organization of cortical neuronal networks. My work explored how the morphometric properties of neurons and neuronal populations constrain their micro-level connectivity. I study how the structured connectivity, the excitation-inhibition balance and other cellular and network mechanisms modulate the global population dynamics. My recent work was a data-driven computational model of dynamical regimes found in dissociated cortical cultures in vitro under several experimental conditions. Currently, I explore the contribution of specific astrocytic mechanisms and astrocyte-neuron interaction in cortical circuits.

Responsibilities

• Research tasks 
• Supervision of student projects
• Teaching computational neuroscience and neuroinformatics (as invited lecturer)
  

Research topics

Computational models of cortical networks, Complex networks

Research unit

Computational Neuroscience Group, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology

Research fields

Computational neuroscience

About me

I am a principal investigator in Computational Neuropsychiatry in Tampere University. My current primary research topic is the disease mechanisms of schizophrenia. I use mathematical modelling of single neurons, neuronal networks as well as intracellular signaling pathways to study the contribution of different schizophrenia-associated genes to cellular and network phenotypes. In particular, I am interested in the cellular and network level mechanisms of EEG-measurable phenotypes of schizophrenia, such as increased delta oscillations and mismatch negativity. My previous research topics revolve around structure and function of neuronal networks and other complex networks, and include topics such as dynamics of Boolean networks, structure and dynamics of dissociated neuronal cultures, measures of complexity, and analysis of network connectivities.

I am leading an Academy of Finland starting grant "ModelPsych: Neural model building for psychiatric diseases - From genes to networks" and an EBRAINS voucher project "Startle-network modelling for Schizophrenia research – Insights from subcellular models of neuromodulation (SubSchiz)".

More about my research (popularized-science blog posts and articles):

Schizophrenia mechanisms can be studied with mathematical modelling 

Breaking the code of schizophrenia 

Publications:

Google Scholar, Researchgate