Andrea Luppi

Andrea Luppi is a Wellcome Early Career Fellow at the University of Oxford and Research Fellow of St. John's College at the University of Cambridge. He works at the intersection of computational neuroscience, network science, and complex systems to understand principles of consciousness and cognition in biological and artificial systems. Coming from a background in philosophy and cognitive science, followed by a PhD in neuroscience and postdoctoral training in neuro-engineering, he is interested in the relation between brain structure and function. Specifically, his work aims to characterize how the capacity for computation, cognition, and consciousness arises from the complex interactions between the brain's network architecture and its dynamical regime. To this end, he combines tools from information theory, network science, and whole-brain computational modeling to study the dynamics and connectivity of the brain across multiple scales and imaging modalities (functional and diffusion MRI, brain stimulation, pharmacology) in humans and other species.