Rodrigo Pena PhD

Rodrigo Felipe de Oliveira Pena is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in the USA where the primary focus is the development of theoretical and computational neuroscience research funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Keen interested in the study of biophysical phenomena that interconnect different spatial and temporal scales in Computational Neuroscience. Holds a Ph.D. in Physics Applied to Medicine and Biology from the University of São Paulo (Ribeirão Preto) and a Bachelor in Medical Physics from the same university. During his training, he developed scientific initiation and a Ph.D. with a FAPESP scholarship from the USP-RP SisNe (Neural Systems Laboratory). He also collaborates with several outstanding projects such as the recently formed group NeuroMat which aims to develop mathematical tools for brain analysis and which is supported by the thematic project FAPESP 2013 / 07699-0 and the thematic project FAPESP 2011 / 50151-0 denominated Dynamic Phenomena in Complex Networks: Fundamentals and Applications. Studied a sandwich degree at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and also held a doctoral sandwich internship abroad at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany where he accumulated extensive experience in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience and in Biomedical Engineering with emphasis on Modeling Phenomena and Biological Systems.