Matthias Hennig
Professor For Computational Neuroscience
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorMatthias Hennig is a Professor for Computational Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh and Deputy Head of School in Informatics, bringing over a decade of focused experience in neural dynamics, electrophysiology, and neural interfaces. His career spans roles from MRC Fellow and Lecturer to Director of the Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, reflecting a strong track record of building interdisciplinary research programs. He combines theoretical and experimental perspectives to probe how neural circuits compute, translating electrophysiological insights into models of brain function. Based in Edinburgh, he mentors the next generation of computational neuroscientists while steering academic strategy at a leading informatics school. Notably, his work bridges hands-on neural data analysis and high-level institutional leadership, evidencing both technical depth and organizational impact.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (61)
converting10
electrophysiology10
neuroscience10
validating10
data-retrieval10
simple-api10
spike10
sorting10
computational-neuroscience9
post-processing9
python9
machine-learning9
statistics9
diffraction9
robust9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mhhennig/HS2
Jul 2017 - Jun 2022
Software for high density electrophysiology
Contributions:2 releases, 223 commits, 18 PRs in 4 years 11 months
pythonspike-detectionhpc-applicationshigh-densityspike-sorting
martinosorb/herding-spikes
Apr 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:115 commits, 12 PRs, 97 pushes in 3 years 2 months
arrayhigh-densityaudiodensityrecordings
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