Speaker: Dr John S. Butler, School of Mathematical Sciences, Technological University Dublin
Title: "Virtual Reality and Neuroimaging to Investigate the Neuronal Process while Walking."
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Biography: John S. Butler is a Lecturer in the School of Mathematical Sciences in Technological University Dublin. He has published over 60 papers in diverse venues from Cerebral Cortex to the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids. In these papers he utilized numerical methods to analyse and help interrupt and predict large and complex datasets. John received his PhD in Numerical Analysis from the School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin under the supervision of Prof John Miller. Following this, he was a post-doctoral fellow from 2006-2009 at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tuebingen, Germany. During this time he collaborated with Prof Heinrich Bülthoff on research in self-motion perception using a variety of methods from low level psychophysics to complex closed loop tasks to electrophysiological recordings. From 2009 to 2013 he worked with Prof John Foxe and Prof Sophie Molholm at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York where he expanded the scope of his work to include a translational research component, specifically investigating the neural developmental differences in multisensory integration between typically developing children and children with Autism Spectrum disorder. From 2013 to 2015 he worked with Prof Richard Reilly at the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering in Trinity College Dublin on movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and Dystonia.