Simon Schultz

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About Simon Schultz

I'm a London-based Australian expat - initially trained in physics, applied math and electrical engineering at Monash and Sydney Universities, before a doctorate in neuroscience at Oxford. I am Director of the Centre for Neurotechnology at Imperial College London, which aims to foster collaborative research at the interface of neuroscience and engineering across our Faculties of Engineering, Medicine and Natural Sciences. I run the Neural Coding and Neurodegenerative Disease Laboratory in the Department of Bioengineering. My research team aim to understand how information is encoded and stored in memory by mammalian brains, and how it is retrieved for use in cognition. We are further interested in how this dysfunctions in neurological disease states such as Alzheimer’s Disease, and in developing therapeutic approaches to enhance or restore memory circuit function. We develop technology for neuroscience experiments, particularly optical technologies for interrogating brain circuitry. These new technologies confront us with very high-dimensional datasets which require new analysis tools, and development of such tools (particularly making use of information theory, graph theory and neural manifold techniques) is also a major lab focus. We are interested in hearing from potential industry research partners in the neurotechnology field, and have a track record of fruitful collaboration with industry. See for more information about our work. My Google Scholar profile is here: & hl=en I'm interested in connecting here with anyone interested in neurotechnology - whether technology for treating brain disorders, technology for understanding how the brain works, or technology derived *from* understanding how the brain works. In addition, I am following accounts in the environment and renewable energy space here, out of personal interest.