Thomas Kreuz

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I am a computational neuroscientist with a physics background. My main field of interest is the development and application of methods to quantify the synchronization between two or more electrophysiological signals.

In recent years the focus of my attention has been on discrete signals and measures of spike train synchrony such as the SPIKE-distance. Currently, I concentrate on the development of methods to measure spike train synchrony between neuronal populations.

Before I worked on continuous signals, e.g. intracranial EEGs from epilepsy patients, and the objective was to evaluate the usefulness of synchronization measures for epileptic seizure prediction by means of a statistical validation.

In the past, another part of my work dealt with simulations of neuronal models (Hodgkin-Huxley, Fitzhugh-Nagumo) under the influence of noise. Finally, I did some work on nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear time series analysis.

Since 2010 I am on a permanent position as "Primo ricercatore" (senior researcher, equivalent to an associate professor) at the Institute of Complex Systems (ISC, Director: Antonio Politi) within the National Research Council (CNR) in Florence, Italy.

From 2007 to 2009 I was an EU Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellow (OIF). This fellowship lasted for three years and involved an international collaboration between two institutes in the US and in Italy. For the first two years (the outgoing phase) I was at the Institute of Nonlinear Science (INLS, Director: Henry D.I. Abarbanel) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Ca, USA, while for the final year (the reintegration phase) I returned to the Institute of Complex Systems in Florence. In the two years before I was an EU Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow (EIF) at the Institute of Complex Systems.

Before that I worked at the John von Neumann Institute of Computing (NIC) at the Research Center Juelich, Germany (Director: Peter Grassberger) where I obtained my PhD in physics in 2003 (awarded by the University of Wuppertal, Germany). During this time I was also associated with the Neurophysics group (Head: Klaus Lehnertz) at the Department of Epilepsy at the University of Bonn, Germany (Director: Christian E. Elger).
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