Hermann Cuntz and Michael Häusser

Michael is Professor of Neuroscience at UCL. He did his PhD work at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Julian Jack, and subsequently worked with Bert Sakmann at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg and with Philippe Ascher at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He established his own laboratory at UCL in 1997 with the support of a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship, and became Professor of Neuroscience and a Trust Senior Research Fellow in 2001. His group is interested in understanding the cellular basis of neural computation in the mammalian brain. Specifically, they are investigating how the integrative properties of neuronal dendrites and the anatomical and functional connectivity of neural circuits contribute to coding and processing of information during behaviour.

Hermann has been working in Michael's group since 2005. He is a theoretical neuroscientist who works closely with researchers to better understand the relationship between anatomy, network connectivity and computation in the brain. "I have always been particularly fascinated by the tree-like branching structures of brain cells. In many cases it is possible to interpret the function of entire neural circuits from their beautiful shapes."

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