Neurology Consultant Specializing in Computational Neuroscience and Neurobiology of Disease

Technical Consultant #1907

Neurobiology of disease.
Computational models of brain disorders.
Neuropathology of schizophrenia.
Design and implementation of dynamic models in complex networks.
Design and implementation of models to address electrical and chemical signaling in brain cell assemblies.
Design of models to address pathologies of central nervous system.

Undisclosed Company, Neuroscientist, Present

Neuroscientist, working on computational modeling of brain structures(under contract).

Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA, Senior Research Associate, 2009 - 2012

Investigated the neuropathology of schizophrenia (biochemical markers associated with the disease).
Designed and analyzed a computational model of schizophrenia based on the results of the research.
Designed and analyzed computational models of post-traumatic epilepsy.
Designed and analyzed models of dynamics on complex networks.
Designed and analyzed models of chemical signaling and activation of non-neuronal brain cells.
Wrote scientific reports and articles that summarize the results of research performed.
Presented results of research at several international and domestic conferences.

University of California, San Diego, CA, Research Associate, 2006 - 2009

Investigated various aspects pertaining to the computational abilities of human brains.
Designed and analyzed computational models of information processing in the brain.
Designed and analyzed models of non-neuronal brain cell activation.
Wrote scientific reports and articles that summarize the results of research performed.
Presented results of research at several international and domestic conferences.

Additional Professional Activities

Tel Aviv University, School of Medicine and the School of Physics Astronomy

Participated in the development of empirical model, to study long range lateral interactions in primary visual cortex.
Modeling effort is used for the treatment of amblyopia (lazy eye disease).
Developed and instructed a variety of courses for undergraduate students: Mathematical Methods (vector and tensor analysis) for physics students; Wave Physics (wave equation, molecule vibrations, electromagnetic waves) for chemistry students; Mechanics (classical mechanics) for biology students; Electricity and Magnetism (electrical circuits, Maxwell's equation, magnetism) for engineering students.

Insight Therapeutics, Israel

Devised and performed protocols to test the quality of state-of-the-art therapeutic software (treatment of breast cancer and tumors by ultra-sonic waves) developed by the company.

Credentials

Programming Languages and Environments:

C, Lisp, HTML, NEURON, PERL and PYTHON.
Parallel programming with OpenMP. Operating systems and applications: Windows, Unix, MatLab. Editing packages: MsWord, LaTeX.

Languages

Academic and Professional Affiliations

Society for Neuroscience, Member
University of California San Diego, Associated Researcher
Reviewer: Neurobiology of Disease, Journal of Neurophysiology, Journal of Neural Engineering, Scientific Reports, New Journal of Physics, Neural Computation, IEEE Proceedings in Biomedical Engineering.
Outreach Program, University of Pisa, Italy

Awards

Publications

Author and Co-Author of numerous case studies, medical journal articles, workshops, health care meetings, and invited talks.