I did my undergraduate (MA Dubl.) in mathematics in Trinity College Dublin. After this I obtained a PGCE (Mathematics) from Queen's University Belfast (QUB), and taught Mathematics, Further Mathematics, and Physics for a short while, before returning to academia to undertake a further Masters in Research (QUB), and then begin a PhD in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience in the Intelligent Systems Research Centre, Magee Campus, Ulster University.
I have also been involved in a visiting research collaboration at the University of Bristol, in the Neural Dynamics group in the School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology.
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See here for more detail, but I am interested in (mainly recurrent) neural networks from a complex systems, neuroscience, and machine learning perspective. I am also interested in the mathematical modelling of the dynamics of synapses, neurons, and networks in their development, maturation, and computation.
I am in the O'Donnell group computational neuroscience research group, split between the ISRC, Ulster University, and University of Bristol. This group is also linked with the Houghton group at the University of Bristol.
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