Alex Bird

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Education

2012 - Present PhD in 'Emergent Activity in Spiking-Neuron Networks'

Systems Biology DTC, University of Warwick

2011 - 2012 MSc in Systems Biology

Systems Biology DTC, University of Warwick

2006 - 2010 MMaths in Mathematics

St John's College, University of Oxford

Research

PhD:

'Emergent Activity in Spiking-Neuron Networks' - Supervisors: Magnus Richardson (Systems Biology) and Mark Wall (Life Sciences)

MSc Miniprojects:

1. 'Meddling in Melanin: Using femtochemistry to probe the ultraviolet photoprotective mechanisms of key eumelanin building blocks' - Supervisor: Vasilios Stavros

2. 'Detailed and reduced models of stochastic synaptic depression in excitatory neurons' - Supervisor: Magnus Richardson