Postdoctoral researchers

Dr Matteo Vinao-Carl

Many modern systems are high-dimensional, nonlinear and chaotic, with rich dynamics unfolding across multiple scales. A common hallmark of these systems is the emergence of travelling waves - coherent structures that persist through space and time. 

As a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London and a neuroimaging analyst at Connectome Health, I develop algorithms to detect travelling waves, explore how they shape cognition, and design interventional strategies to modulate them in neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. More broadly, I am interested in the link between travelling waves and the emergence of phenomenal consciousness in physical systems - and the use of wave-based computational principles in artificial intelligence. 

Email: matteo.vinao-carl16@imperial.ac.uk
Twitter: @VinaoCarl

Dr Junheng Li

Junheng is co-supervised by Mauricio Barahona (Math). Junheng is a current PhD student in the lab, working on computational analysis of sleep, using feature-based statistical learning to derive the fundamental brain dynamic changes and state transitions. Based on the models and underlying mathematics, Junheng aims to develop closed-loop neuromodulation to facilitate sleep and help with sleep-related problems in people with dementia.