Matteo Carandini - Curriculum Vitae#
Education
- 1996 Postdoctoral fellowship NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
- 1996 Ph.D., Neural Science NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
- 1990 Laurea, summa cum laude, Mathematics, UNIVERSITA` DI ROMA
- 1985 Maturità, LICEO VIRGILIO Rome
Employment
- 2007 - present UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
- 2002 - 2008 SMITH-KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE San Francisco
- 1999 - 2002 UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH and SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (ETH) Zurich
- 1997 - 1998 HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE and NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Awards and Recognition
- 2018 M. R. Bauer Distinguished Visiting Professor, Brandeis University
- 2007 GlaxoSmithKline / Fight for Sight Chair
- 2006 Catherine D Kettlewell Chair of Research in Visual Science
- 2005 McKnight Scholar
- 2002 Professorship of the Swiss National Foundation
Professional service
- 2017 - present Executive Committee Neuropixels collaboration
- 2016 - 2023 Executive Board International Brain Laboratory
- 2022 Program Committee IBRO World Congress
- 2021 Special Advisory Board CIRB, College de France
- 2020 Review Panel EMBL Rome
- 2018 - 2023 College of Expert Reviewers European Science Foundation
- 2016 - 2019 Program Committee Society for Neuroscience
- 2012 - 2016 Member, Peer Review College Wellcome Trust
- 2007 - 2008 Program Committee, Vision Meeting Optical Society of America
- 2006 - 2007 Program Committee European Conference on Visual Perception
- 2006 - 2013 Program Committee to Program Chair to General Chair to Advisory Board Cosyne
Institutional service
- 2019 - 2021 Vice-Dean for Research UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences
- 2016 - present Mentor UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
- 2010 - 2016 Chair, Animal and Welfare Ethics Review Board UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
- 2003 - 2007 Chair, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Smith-Kettlewell Institute
Editorial service
- 2016 - present Editorial Board Neuron
- 2016 - present Editorial Board Current Opinion in Neurobiology
- 2012 - 2017 Associate Editor Journal of Neuroscience
- 2014 - 2016 Review Editor eLife
- 2009 Co-editor for Sensory Systems Current Opinion in Neurobiology
- 2007 - 2014 Editor Journal of Vision
- 2004 - 2014 Member Faculty of 1000
Leadership in collaborative funding
- 2022 - 2027 Wellcome Trust "Photonic Neuropixels probes for brain reading and writing" (£5.6m)
- 2022 - 2027 Wellcome Trust “Brainwide organization of neuronal activity” (£3.6m)
- 2017 - 2023 Wellcome Trust “Organization of large neuronal populations during behavior” (£3.6m)
- 2017 - 2022 Wellcome Trust “Transforming brain recordings with next-generation probes” (£3.9m)
- 2012 - 2017 Wellcome Trust, “Integration of internal and external signals in sensory cortex” (£3.6m)
- 1999 - 2002 HFSP “Functions and mechanisms of pattern adaptation in the visual cortex” ($0.8m)
Research funding
- 2022 - 2027 Wellcome Trust “Photonic Neuropixels probes for brain reading and writing” ( £1.4m)
- 2022 - 2023 BBSRC “Recording from one million neurons” (£0.3m)
- 2023 - 2028 ERC/UKRI “Coding and wiring in a million cortical neurons” (£2.9m)
- 2022 - 2027 NIH “Optimization, application and dissemination of volumetric recording” ($0.5m)
- 2022 - 2027 Wellcome Trust “Brainwide organization of neuronal activity” (£1.8)
- 2021 - 2026 NIH “State-dependent decision-making in brainwide neural circuits” ($1.1m)
- 2021 - 2024 BBSRC “Brainwide neural populations supporting multisensory decisions” (£0.5m)
- 2017 - 2023 Simons Foundation, “International Brain Laboratory – Carandini” ($0.8m)
- 2017 - 2023 Wellcome Trust “Organization of large neuronal populations during behavior “ (£1.4m)
- 2017 - 2022 Wellcome Trust “Transforming brain recordings with next-generation probes” (£1.6m)
- 2016 - 2021 Wellcome Trust “Functional neuromics of the cerebral cortex” (£0.5m)
- 2016 - 2019 BBSRC “Combining vision with action one synapse from the eye” (£0.5m)
- 2014 - 2017 Simons Foundation “Global brain states and local cortical processing” ($0.7m)
- 2012 - 2017 Wellcome Trust “Integration of internal and external signals in sensory cortex” (£1.8m)
- 2014 - 2016 Royal Society Wolfson Foundation, “Cortical Neuromics Laboratory” (£0.2m)
- 2009 - 2014 ERC, “Computations by Neurons and Populations in Visual Cortex (€2.5m)
- 2008 - 2011 Fight for Sight, “Visual neuroscience in the behaving mouse” (£0.2m)
- 2008 - 2012 Medical Research Council, “Strategic Award” (£1.0m)
- 2006 - 2012 NIH “Dynamics of population activity in visual cortex” ($1.3m)
- 2005 - 2008 McKnight Foundation, “Imaging population responses in visual cortex” ($0.2m)
- 2005 - 2007 NIH “Novel applications of voltage-sensitive dye imaging in visual cortex” ($0.5m)
- 2003 - 2006 James S McDonnell Foundation “Beyond receptive fields in visual cortex” ($0.3m)
- 2001 - 2005, SNSF, “Validating models of responses in primary visual cortex” (CHF 1.4m)
- 1999 - 2002 HFSP “Functions and mechanisms of pattern adaptation in the visual cortex” ($0.2m)
- 1999 - 2002 SNSF “Mechanisms of pattern adaptation in the primary visual cortex” (CHF 0.4m)
Former postdoctoral fellows
- 2015 - 2023 Philip (Pip) Coen to University College London
- 2016 - 2022 Andrew Peters to University of Oxford
- 2019 - 2021 Anwar Nunez-Elizalde to industry
- 2014 - 2020 Sylvia Schröder to University of Sussex
- 2015 - 2019 Armin Lak to University of Oxford
- 2013 - 2019 Daisuke Shimaoka to Monash University
- 2015 - 2019 Julien Fournier to INSERM, Paris
- 2014 - 2018 Nicholas Steinmetz to University of Washington
- 2015 - 2017 Marius Pachitariu to HHMI Janelia Research Campus
- 2010 - 2016 Aman Saleem to University College London
- 2009 - 2015 Bilal Haider to Georgia Tech
- 2009 - 2015 Tatsuo Sato to Technical University of Munich
- 2003 - 2013 Andrea Benucci to RIKEN Brain Science Institute
- 2008 - 2013 Neel Dhruv to Nature Neuroscience
- 2012 - 2013 Adam Ranson to Cardiff University
- 2009 - 2012 Asli Ayaz to Brain Research Institute, Zurich
- 2010 - 2011 Marieke Schölvinck to Ernst Strüngmann Institute
- 2006 - 2009 Laura Busse to University of Tübingen
- 2006 - 2009 Steffen Katzner to University of Tübingen
- 2004 - 2007 Robert Frazor to industry
- 1999 - 2002 Tobe Freeman to industry
Former doctoral students
- 2016 - 2020 Julie Lee to New York University
- 2014 - 2018 E Mika Diamanti to Princeton University
- 2013 - 2017 L Federico Rossi to University College London
- 2011 - 2015 Christopher Burgess to DeepMind
- 2010 - 2014 Andrea Pisauro to University of Oxford
- 2008 - 2012 David Schulz to Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
- 2001 - 2005 Vincent Bonin to Harvard University
- 2000 - 2005 Valerio Mante to Stanford University
- 1999 - 2004 Séverine Durand to RIKEN Brain Science Institute