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General Information

Full Name Ali Özgür Argunşah
Date of Birth 29th January 1981
Languages Turkish, English, Portuguese, German

Education

  • 2016
    Ph.D.
    Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Lisbon, Portugal
    • Biology/Neuroscience
    • Studied synaptic plasticity using naturalistic patterns of activity.
    • Developed signal and image processing pipelines to study single dendritic spine structural plasticity.
  • 2010
    M.S.
    Sabancı University, İstanbul, Türkiye
    • EECS
    • Developed signal processing and machine learning algorithms for EEG based brain computer interfaces.
    • Participated in Drive Safe project for physiological signal acquisition and processing.
  • 2004
    B.S.
    Başkent University, Ankara, Türkiye
    • Biomedical Engineering
    • I designed the first two-channel mobile EEG data acquisition system as my graduation project.

Experience

  • 2016 - 2025
    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Brain Research Instıtute, University of Zurich
    • Deputy director of animal experimentation
    • Signal processing
      • Spike-sorting
      • Photostimulation locked uncaging-ephys analysis
    • Image processing
      • Synaptic puncta detection and colocalization
      • Detection and segmentation of different cellular structures in confocal images
  • 2023
    Visiting Professor
    Kadir Has University, İstanbul, Türkiye
    • Courses
      • Introduction to Neuroscience
      • Biopython
      • Behavioral Biology

Open Source Projects

  • 2012 - 2025
    SpineS
    • Dendritic spine analysis pipeline written in Matlab

Honors and Awards

  • 2023
    • Best Presentation
    • Turkish Neuroscience Meeeting
  • 2004
    • Best Poster
    • Turkish Biophysical Association