Doctoral Thesis Project
Biophysics of temporal information processing through olfactory glomeruli


Doctoral Thesis Committee

• Wolf, Fred, Prof. Dr. - Non-linear Dynamics (MPI-ds, Uni-Phy)


• Schild, Detlev, Prof. Dr. Dr. - Neurophysiology and Cellular Biophysics (Uni-Med)


• Neher, Erwin, Prof. Dr. - Membrane Biophysics (MPI-bpc)

Homepage Department/Research Group:

http://www.chaos.gwdg.de/



University Education

• 01/2011-present Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization / University of Göttingen / GGNB program Physics of Biological and Complex Systems


• 09/2008-09/2009 University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Master, Physics, thesis: "The clinical utility of the Young-Laplace equation in ocular globe biomechanics"


• 09/2001-06/2006 University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Bachelor, Science (Double Specialist: Mathematics and Physics), thesis: "Optimal bounded-error strategies for projective measurements in nonorthogonal-state discrimination"

Publications

• Touzel, MAP, Adamson, RBA and Steinberg AM (2007) Optimal bounded-error strategies for projective measurements in nonorthogonal-state discrimination. Phys. Rev. A 76, no. 6: 62314
  

Fellowships, Awards, Memberships

• Technology and Complex Systems, MITACS, won after admittance to the Centre for Neural Dynamics Summer School


• 2008-present Member of the Society for Complex Systems in Cognitive Science


• 2008-present Member of the International Society for Psychophysics


• 2008-2009 $19,340 Scholarship/Research Grant (Department of Physics and Department of Physiology, University of Toronto), Admission scholarship for 2008-2009 academic year


• 2007-2008 Institute of Physics, UK (Associate Member)


• 2003-2005 Member of the Canadian Association of Physicists