Ey there, I’m Javi. I’m a neuroscientist working as a postdoc at the Karalis lab (ICM). I focus on neural data analysis to understand the dynamics and functional constrains of cortical and subcortical circuits and how they are shaped by combinatorial neuromodulation. I’m specially interested on using spontaneous activity to uncover neural population dynamics and communication between circuits.
I got my Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry at the University of Valencia and then turned to data analysis. During my thesis (Bioengineering PhD) I focused on the study of nonlinear oscillations in the spiking activity of neuronal populations of visual cortex to understand how time intervals in the seconds range modulated visual stimulation. In addition, I worked on how to characterise neural oscillations in order to perform single trial classification of evoked activity.
During my first postdoc at the Reig’s lab in the Instituto de Neurociencias (UMH-CSIC) I used spontaneous activity (whole-cell and LFP data) to understand the functional segregation of dorsal striatum circuits and its coupling to different cortical regions. This include the use of tools that capture the nonlinear properties of brain oscillations, combined with ML techniques to classify different types of brain waves. Thanks to a Margarita Salas fellowship, I extend this work through computational modelling. I developed conductance-based models capable of reproducing spontaneous oscillatory activity, enabling us to explore how slow waves propagate along cortical and striatal circuits
See my list of publications here
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