Prof. Dmitri Rusakov University College London, UK

Dmitri A. Rusakov is a Professor of Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Principal Fellow at the UCL Institute of Neurology. Graduated with a Masters degree in Physics, he obtained his PhD in Neurobiology and Biophysics at the NAS Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology in Kiev. Dmitri subsequently worked in laboratories in the... read moreUK gaining an independent investigator position in 1999 at the MRC National Institute for Medical Research (Mill Hill, London), before joining University College London in 2000 and obtaining a Personal Chair in 2007. His current interests focus on presynaptic function and complex interactions between central synaptic circuits and astroglia using advanced methods of biophysics and cellular imaging.