Ali Özgür Argunşah

I am working as a senior research scientist in Laboratory of Neural Circuit Assembly , Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich. I am involved in two separate but interconnected lines of research: Systems neuroscience and data analysis. We are trying to understand how different neuronal types and system interact during the course of development.

I studied biomedical engineering in Başkent University and went on to do my masters in Electronics Engineering and Computer Science in Signal Processing and Information Systems Laboratory at Sabancı University in İstanbul, Türkiye. I worked on developing machine learning algorithms for EEG brain computer inferfaces under the supervision of Dr. Müjdat Çetin.

During my masters, I spent six months in Neuroscience statistics lab, working on epilepsy onset and offset detection using ECoG data recorded from patiens with temporal lobe epilepsy. I also audit Introduction to Neuroscience course at Harvard Medical School. After this visit, I got more interested in Neuroscience and decided to switch my research direction from signal processing to neuroscience.

I moved to Lisbon, Portugal ın 2009 for Ph.D. During my Ph.D. in Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme , I studied how different activity patterns lead to diverse structural plasticity at single dendritic spines using two photon glutamate uncaging and imaging.