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

20/21 Feb 2012 :: International workshop about "The Meaning of Words" in Plymouth. For further info see here.

Early 2012 :: Special Issue on Cortical Microcircuits for The Journal of Neuroscience Methods

3/4 December 2011 :: We'll be at the London Science Museum for the RobotVille Festival demonstrating our artificial vision systems and other fun stuff.

October 2011 :: News feature in "The Australian" about Sleep and Consciousness, see HERE.

September 2011 :: Theme Issue on The Complexity of Sleep for Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Editors: T.W., Peter Achermann and Eckehard Olbrich. This theme issue is now out -- http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/2011/sleep.xhtml. An info leaflet is HERE.

1/2 Sept 2010 :: 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.

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 SCANDLE Project
An EU FP7 project aiming at detecting entities by sound and sonar.

The COLAMN Project
A large project investigating the cortical microcircuit.

Publications
Selected publications and a link to the complete list.

Outreach
Brain-inspired outreach activities.

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

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

Contact Details
Addresses and directions to Plymouth.