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Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- e.ullner@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 273184
- Office Address
Department of Physics and Institute for Complex Systems and Mathematical Biology (ICSMB) Old Aberdeen Aberdeen AB24 3UE Meston Building Room 344 Institute of Medical Sciences, Foresterhill
- School/Department
- School of Natural and Computing Sciences
Biography
03.09 - now SULSA Lecturer for Systems Biology at the University of Aberdeen
09.08 - 12.08 Visiting researcher in the group of Prof. Dr. Herzel at the Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University Berlin (Germany)
10.06 - 08.08 Researcher, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain) research fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
02.05 - 09.06 Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems Dresden (Germany)
09.04 - 12.04 Researcher, University of Potsdam (Germany)
10.02 - 11.02 visiting researcher in the group of Prof. Dr. Jordi García-Ojalvo at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain)
09.01 - 08.04 Physics - Nonlinear dynamics University of Potsdam (Germany)
Dr. rer. nat., summa cum lauda (with distinction)
topic: “Noise-induced phenomena of signal transmission in excitable neural models”
stipend of the International Max Planck Research School
on Biomimetics SystemsMemberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Postgraduate Research School Officer for the School of Natural and Computational Sciences
Director of Postgraduate Programmes in the Department of Physics
- External Memberships
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Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Research
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Research Overview
- neuronal networks
- application of statistical physics to modelling of complex biological systems
- investigation of synthetic genetic oscillators with cell-to-cell communication
- global rhythm generation in an ensemble of diverse genetic circadian clocks
- stochastic processes and noise-induced phenomena
- stochastic dynamics in neuronal models
- biological systems with phase repulsive and inhibitory coupling
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Physics.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Current Research
balanced neuronal networks of spiking neurones
complex irregular dynamics
data analysis
Supervision
My current supervision areas are: Physics.
data science
statistical physics
modelling biological systems
modelling synthetic genetic networds
co-supervision of microbiological projects
- Teaching
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- Publications
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Mechanistic insights into steroid hormone-mediated regulation of the androgen receptor gene
PloS ONE, vol. 19, no. 8, e0304183Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0304183
Mechanistic Insights into Steroid Hormone-mediated Regulation of the Androgen Receptor Gene
PloS ONEContributions to Journals: ArticlesNoise-induced artificial intelligence
Physical Review Research, vol. 4, no. 4, 043069Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCollective dynamics in the presence of finite-width pulses
Chaos, vol. 31, no. 4, 043135Contributions to Journals: ArticlesStability of synchronous states in sparse neuronal networks
Nonlinear Dynamics, vol. 102, pp. 733-743Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Human Body as a Super Network: Digital Methods to Analyze the Propagation of Aging
Frontiers in Genetics, vol. 12, 136Contributions to Journals: ArticlesQuantitative and qualitative analysis of asynchronous neural activity
Physical Review Research, vol. 2, no. 2, 023103Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCollective irregular dynamics in balanced networks of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons
The European Physical Journal. Special Topics, vol. 227, no. 10-11, pp. 1185-1204Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUbiquity of collective irregular dynamics in balanced networks of spiking neurons
Chaos, vol. 28, no. 8, 081106Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCortical Spike Synchrony as a Measure of Input Familiarity
Neural computation, vol. 29, no. 9, pp. 2491-2510Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/NECO_a_00987
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