Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
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Rodrigo Quian Quiroga

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Rodrigo Quian Quiroga is neuroscientist at the University of Leicester UK. He holds a Research Chair and is the director of the Centre for Systems Neuroscience and the head of the Bioengineering Research Group at the University of Leicester. He studied Physics at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and obtained a PhD in Applied Mathematics at the University of Luebeck, Germany. Before joining the University of Leicester in 2004, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Research Centre Juelich, Germany and a Sloan fellow at the California Institute of Technology, USA. He has visiting positions at the Leibniz Institute for Neurophysiology, Germany; the International School for Advanced Studied (SISSA), Trieste, Italy and has held visiting positions at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and Caltech and UCLA in the US. In 2010 he obtained the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. His main research interest is on the study of the principles of visual perception and memory. Together with colleagues at Caltech and UCLA he discovered what has been named 'Concept cells' or 'Jennifer Aniston neurons', which are neurons in the human brain that play a key role in memory formation.

For more information see his lab webpage: www.le.ac.uk/neuroengineering
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