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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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Cooperative differentiation through clustering in multicellular populations
Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 263, no. 2, pp. 189-202Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.11.007
Dynamics of Multicellular Synthetic Gene Networks
Handbook on Biological Networks. Boccaletti, S., Latora, V., Moreno, Y. (eds.). World Scientific, pp. 33-58, 26 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersNoise-induced coherence in multicellular circadian clocks
Biophysical Journal, vol. 96, no. 9, pp. 3573–3581Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2009.02.031
Multistability of synthetic genetic networks with repressive cell-to-cell communication
Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics, vol. 78, no. 3, 031904Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.78.031904