Scientific Interests

Stochastic dynamics with application to neurobiology  and biophysical problems; analytical and numerical methods for the treatment of Langevin, Fokker-Planck, and Master equations.

Research topics

• Dynamics of single stochastic neurons and neuronal populations
• Information transmission in neural systems
• Short-term synaptic plasticity
• Auditory signal transduction by hair cells
• Stochastic models of biological motility
• Active Brownian particles and other stochastic models with nonlinear friction
• Transport and diffusion in nonlinear potentials
• Stochastic dynamics of excitable, bistable, and oscillatory systems
• Noise-induced effects: Stochastic resonance, coherence resonance, noise-induced transport (ratchets)
• Theory of stochastic processes: Statistics of point processes, first-passage-time problems with time-dependent driving or colored noise

last updated 01/11/2010