Neural Engineering

Dr Charles Unsworth holds a BSc Hons in Mathematical Physics from the University of Liverpool, an MSc in Astronomical Technology from Edinburgh University’s Royal Observatory and a PhD in Millimetre-Wave Physics at the University of St Andrews. He was a Higher Scientific Officer of the Defence Evaluation Research Agency (DERA) at the Ministry of Defence, UK, in the area of radar hardware. He completed a 3 year Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh in Radar Signal Processing and a 2 year Postdoctoral Mobility Fellow at Edinburgh University collaborating with the Royal Hospital of Sick Children, Edinburgh in Biomedical Signal Processing of the EEG. He joined the Department of Engineering Science in 2002. There he established and directs a Neural Engineering group which specialises in: in vitro Neural Platforms on chip, Advanced Signal & Image Processing and Neural Modelling. He will discuss the current research that his Neural Engineering group performs in his scheduled talk.