Michael Häusser

MICHAEL HÄUSSER is Professor of Neuroscience at HKU and Director of SBMS. He received his PhD from Oxford University under the supervision of Julian Jack. He subsequently worked with Nobel Laureate Bert Sakmann at the Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg and with Philippe Ascher at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. He established his own laboratory at University College London in 1997 and became Professor of Neuroscience at UCL in 2001. His group is interested in understanding the cellular basis of neural computation in the mammalian brain using a combination of experimental and theoretical approaches, with a special focus on the role of dendrites. He helped to found the open-science collaboration International Brain Laboratory (internationalbrainlab.org), which aims to understand brain-wide mechanisms of decision-making. His group has developed a range of “neurotechnologies” for interrogating neural circuits, including “all-optical interrogation” which allows one to read and write neural activity at cellular resolution in the intact brain. These neurotechnologies may form the basis of novel brain-machine interfaces.