Matthieu GILSON
matthieu.gilson [at] univ-amu.fr
ORCID
0000-0002-6726-7207
Chair of Junior Professor
Faculty of medecine
Aix-Marseille University (AMU), France
Member of BraiNets: From Neuronal Computations to Cognition; see other team members there.
Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone (INT, UMR7289), CNRS
Also affiliated with Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes (INS, UMR1106), INSERM
Research in Computational Neuroscience for Cognition and Neuropahtologies:
How does the brain integrate information about the subject's environment with internal processes like motivation to produce behavior? What are the neuronal mechanisms and circuits that implement those functions?
To address those questions, I develop models of neuronal networks to study their dynamics and emerging functions, at the microscopic and macroscopic levels. My continuing interest is on distributed representations and computations in neuronal networks. I use network models to interpret neuroimaging and electrophysiological data (spike trains, fMRI, EEG, MEG), in terms of brain communication at the macroscopic level and in terms of neuronal computations at the microscopic level.
The model-based approach is motivated by:
- understanding how neuronal processing implements the information processing and transmission
- a network-oriented analysis motivated by the distributed nature of neuronal processing
- combining diffrent neuronal mechanisms and data together to make sense out of them beyond a pure data analysis (e.g. statistical inference or "black-box" machine learning)
See
Projects and
Publications for details.
Position Offers:
We have several position offers, check the project section and have a look at past position offers to get an idea of the current composition of the team:
post-doc,
PhD,
PhD. Feel also free to contact us to know about projects in preparation.
Desired profiles: computational neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, (biomedical) engineering, applied mathematics, computer science
Scientific Animation and Formation:
I am involved in
CONECT, which aims to bring together neuroscientists around computational methods and questions. CONECT organizes seminars and continuing education actions, see
here for details.
Every year around November-December we organize the
BrainHack Marseille, 3 days dedicated to open science and coding in neuroscience with the aim to develop collaborative projects in the Marseille neuroscience community and beyond.
I am part of the program committee of
OCNS.
Societal and Environmental Issues in Research and Academia:
Research is an exciting intellectual adventure, but it is not a "hydroponic" activity, detached from society and the whole Earth environment. There is indeed a growing concern in the scientific community about the implications of research and developed technologies like big data in terms of energetical and social impacts, see for instance the
opinion on environmental issues by the of CNRS ethics committee (COMETS). I am thus trying to contribute in organizing research in a collaborative manner, while taking into account the foreseen limits. In particular, I am part of
Atécopol Marseille that focuses on ecology in academia and around.
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