Adrian Ponce-alvarez

Dr. Adrián Ponce-Alvarez is a theoretical neuroscientist employed as a Ramón y Cajal Research fellow at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.

His research concerns the study of neural networks, at different scales and in different states. He focuses primarily on how cognitive processes are represented in the spatiotemporal patterns of neuronal activity; how brain regions interact; how collective behaviors emerge in neural networks; and how these collective behaviors underlie brain function/dysfunction and different brain states (e.g., conscious wakefulness, sleep, anesthesia).

His approach uses a combination of data analysis and theory, by means of stochastic dynamical systems, information theory, statistical mechanics, machine learning, and network theory.