Biography

2007-         RCUK Academic Fellow, University of Sussex

2004-2007  Assistant Research Scientist, UCSD

2002-2004  Post-doctoral Training, UCSD

2001          PhD in Physics, University of Leipzig

1998          Diplom in Physics, Georg-August Univeristät Göttingen 

Role

Senior Research Fellow and RCUK Academic Fellow

In my research I combine dynamical systems theory, statistics and hybrid systems experiments in a comprehensive approach to understand information processing in nervous systems.

Current interests include (but are not restricted to):

• Information processing in olfactory systems and applications to electronic noses (Nowotny et al. Biol Cybern 93(6): 436-446 (2005))
• Sequence learning in neuronal systems (Nowotny et al. Phys Rev E 68: 011908 (2003)) and applications to navigation
• Accurate conductance based neurons models and hybrid systems, including dynamic clamp development (Nowotny et al. J Neurosci Meth 158(2): 287-299 (2006))
  

Office hours: Tuesdays 13:00-15:00

Grémiaux, Alexandre, Nowotny, Thomas, Martinez, Dominique, Lucas, Philippe and Rospars, Jean-Pierre (2012) Modelling the signal delivered by a population of first-order neurons in a moth olfactory system. Brain Research, 1434. pp. 123-135. ISSN 0006-8993

Buckley, Christopher L and Nowotny, Thomas (2012) Transient Dynamics between Displaced Fixed Points: An Alternate Nonlinear Dynamical Framework for Olfaction. Brain Research, 1434. pp. 62-72. ISSN 0006-8993

Belmabrouk, Hana, Nowotny, Thomas, Rospars, Jean-Pierre and Martinez, Dominique (2011) Interaction of cellular and network mechanisms for efficient pheromone coding in moths. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

Buckley, Christopher L and Nowotny, Thomas (2011) Multi-scale model of an inhibitory network shows optimal properties near bifurcation. Physical Review Letters, 106 (23). p. 238109.

Papadopoulou, Maria, Cassenaer, Stijn, Nowotny, Thomas and Laurent, Gilles (2011) Normalization for Sparse Encoding of Odors by a Wide-Field Interneuron. Science, 332 (6030). pp. 721-725.

Kemenes, Ildikó, Marra, Vincenzo, Crossley, Michael, Samu, Dávid, Staras, Kevin, Kemenes, György and Nowotny, Thomas (2011) Dynamic clamp with StdpC software. Nature Protocols, 6 (3). pp. 405-417. ISSN 1754-2189

Zavada, Andrei, Buckley, Christopher, Martinez, D, Rospars, J P and Nowotny, Thomas (2011) Competition-Based Model of Pheromone Component Ratio Detection in the Moth. PLoS ONE, 6 (2). e16308.

Nowotny, Thomas, Muezzinoglu, Mehmet K and Huerta, Ramon (2011) Bio-mimetic classification on modern parallel hardware: Realizations in NVidia CUDA and OpenMP. International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, 7 (7A). pp. 3825-3838.

Szücs, Attila, Berton, Fulvia, Nowotny, Thomas, Sanna, Pietro and Francesconi, Walter (2010) Consistency and Diversity of Spike Dynamics in the Neurons of Bed Nucleus of Stria Terminalis of the Rat: A Dynamic Clamp Study. PLoS ONE, 5 (8). ISSN 1932-6203

Huerta, Ramón and Nowotny, Thomas (2009) Fast and robust learning by reinforcement signals: explorations in the insect brain. Neural Computation, 21 (8). pp. 2123-2151. ISSN 0899-7667

Nowotny, Thomas (2009) "Sloppy engineering" and the olfactory system of insects. In: Biologically Inspired Signal Processing for Chemical Sensing. Springer, pp. 3-32. ISBN 9783642001758

Nowotny, Thomas, Huerta, Ramon and Rabinovich, Mikhail I (2008) Neuronal synchrony: Peculiarity and generality. CHAOS: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Non-linear Science, 18 (3). ISSN 1054-187X

Ivanchenko, Mikhail V, Nowotny, Thomas, Selverston, Allen I and Rabinovich, Mikhail I (2008) Pacemaker and Network Mechanisms of Neural Rhythm Generation. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 253 (3). pp. 452-461. ISSN 0022-5193

Nowotny, Thomas, Levi, Rafael and Selverston, Allen I (2008) Probing the Dynamics of Identified Neurons with a Data-Driven Modeling Approach. PLoS ONE, 3 (7). ISSN 1932-6203

Nowotny, Thomas and Requardt, Manford (2007) Emergent Properties in Structurally Dynamic Disordered Cellular Networks. Journal of Cellular Automata, 2 (4). pp. 273-289. ISSN 1557-5969

Nowotny, Thomas, Szücs, Attila, Levi, Rafael and Selverston, Allen I (2007) Models wagging the dog: Are circuits constructed with disparate parameters? Neural Computation, 19 (8). pp. 1985-2003. ISSN 1530-888X

Nowotny, Thomas and Rabinovich, Mikhail I (2007) Dynamical origin of independent spiking and bursting activity in neural microcircuits. Phys Rev Lett, 98 (12). pp. 1281061-4. ISSN 0031-9007

Nowotny, Thomas, Szűcs, Attila, Pinto, Reynaldo D and Selverston, Allen I (2006) StdpC: A modern Dynamic Clamp. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 158 (2). pp. 287-299. ISSN 0165-0270

Haas, Julie S, Nowotny, Thomas and Abarbanel, H D I (2006) Spike-timing-dependent plasticity of inhibitory synapses in the entorhinal cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 96 (6). 3305 - 3313. ISSN 0022-3077

Nowotny, Thomas, Huerta, Ramón, Abarbanel, Henry D I and Rabinovich, Mikhail I (2005) Self-organization in the olfactory system: One shot odor recognition in insects. Biological Cybernetics, 93 (6). pp. 436-446. ISSN 0340-1200

Huerta, Ramón, Nowotny, Thomas, Garcia-Sanchez, Marta, Abarbanel, H D I and Rabinovich, M I (2004) Learning classification in the olfactory system of insects. Neural Computation, 16 (8). pp. 1601-1640. ISSN 0899-7667

Nowotny, Thomas, Zhigulin, Valentin P, Selverston, Allan I, Abarbanel, Henry D I and Rabinovich, Mikhail I (2003) Enhancement of synchronization in a hybrid neural circuit by spike timing dependent plasticity. Journal of Neuroscience, 23 (30). pp. 9776-9785. ISSN 0270-6474

Nowotny, T and Huerta, R (2003) Explaining synchrony in feedforward networks: Are McCulloch-Pitts neurons good enough? Biological Cybernetics, 89 (4). pp. 237-241.

Nowotny, Thomas, Rabinovich, Mikhail I, Huerta, Ramón and Abarbanel, Henry D I (2003) Decoding temporal information through slow lateral excitation in the olfactory system of insects. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 15 (2). pp. 271-281. ISSN 0929-5313

Nowotny, Thomas, Rabinovich, Misha I and Abarbanel, Henry D I (2003) Spatial representation of temporal information through spike timing dependent plasticity. Phys Rev E, 68 (1). 011908. ISSN 1063-651X