Research

Associated with the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin [2]

The research area is located in the field of nonlinear dynamics and control with strong connections to neuroscience and excitable system. Special attention is given to:

• the phenomenon of synchronization
• effects of time delay
• network dynamics
• control on/of networks, controllability of networks
• temporal networks
• spreading processes (epidemics, contagion)
• stochastic dynamical systems
• pattern formation
• nonlinear excitation waves in neural systems

Current projects are supported by:

• Collaborative Research Center 910 [3] (Project B10 [4], 2 projects as part of the special measures for the promotion of young scientists)
• Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin "Precision and Variability" [5]
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) [6] in the postdoctoral programme [7]
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) [8] by  a travel grant with Greek research institutions (PPP – IKYDA) [9]
• German-Russian Interdisciplinary Science Center (G-RISC) [10]

DAAD-supported exchange program with the title "Chimera in dynamical networks of nonliner systems" [11]

In collaboration with National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” (Athens, Greece) [12] and University of Patras (Greece) [13]

Duration: January 2013 to December 2014, extended until December 2015

• Functional connectivity of distant cortical regions: role of remote synchronization and symmetry in interactions [14]
  Reference: NeuroImage 97, 1 (2014). [15]
• When Nonlical Coupling between Oscillators Becomes Sronger: Patched Synchrony or Multichimera States [16]
  Reference: Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 224101 (2013) [17] 
• Experimental observation of chimeras in coupled-map lattices [18]
  Reference: Nature Physics 8, 658 (2012) [19]
• Loss of Coherence in Dynamical Networks: Spatial Chaos and Chimera States [20]
  Reference: Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 234102 (2011) [21]

Project B10: Control of networks with time-varying topologies and applications to epidemiology [22]

Project A13: Dynamics of inhomogeneous neural systems with nonlocal coupling [23]

Project B7: Large-scale neural model for functional networks of the human cortex [24]