Thomas Wennekers

Associate Professor (Reader) in Computational Neuroscience

Centre for Robotic and Neural Systems
Centre for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience
University of Plymouth, UK

Recent Calls and Activities

ca April 2011 :: Theme Issue on The Complexity of Sleep for Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Guest editor together with Peter Achermann and Eckehard Olbrich.

1/2 Sept 2010 :: CALL OPEN :: COLAMN Workshop 2010 on Microcircuits and Neuromorphic Hardware. For further info see here.

21 July 2010 :: BBC News feature on neuro-inspired future computing see here.

2/3 June 2010 :: Spike-Train Metrics Workshop 2010. For further info see here.

October 2009: Special Issue on Cortical Microcircuitry with Vassilis Cutsuridis, Bruce Graham, Imre Vida and John G Taylor appeared in the October Issue of Neural Networks.

July 2009: Workshop on Cortical Microcircuit Models of Information Processing and Plasticity at the 18th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting 2009 (with Vassilis Cutsuridis)

June 2009: Workshop and Seminar on Sleep and Large-Scale Cortex Models (with Peter Achermann and Eckehard Olbrich)

Research Assessment Exercise 2008

Results of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise came out in December 2008 http://www.rae.ac.uk/

The University of Plymouth made a huge leap from place 65 to 50 on the list of UK universities. More information here.

The Centre for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience prepared a common bid with Computer Science. We received an outstanding evaluation with 25% of our research outputs rated world leading (4*), 50% world excellent (3*) and 25% world recognised (2*). This research profile makes us the number 13 of Computer Science Departments in the UK, an excellent result for a new university like UoP.

What else you can find here:

Research
Research overview and links to special topic pages.

The COLAMN Project
A large project investigating the cortical microcircuit

Publications
Selected publications and a link to the complete list.

Software
A few programs including my simulation-tool "felix".

Short CV
Me, myself, and I pressed into a short page.

Contact Details
Addresses, directions to Plymouth, and maps.