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UN BIOFIZICAN ROMAN A PRIMIT CEA MAI PRESTIGIOASA DISTINCTIE NSF
Dr. Sorinel Adrian Oprisan, assistant professor of physics at the College of
Charleston (CofC), has won a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER)
Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the most prestigious of the
foundation's awards and the first for the Department of Physics and Astronomy at CofC.
The award provides $500,000 to support up to five years of computational
neuroscience research and educational outreach. Oprisan's project, titled "Prediction of
Synchrony and Phase-Locked Modes in Neural Networks based on Stimulus Time Resetting
Curve," will investigate how large neural networks processes and respond to external
stimuli by large-scale computer simulations. Such an interdisciplinary approach will
significantly add to our knowledge about the human nervous system and its
related disorders. Research in Oprisan's lab is primarily focused on implementing new
computational paradigms for biophysically realistic neurons and large-scale neural
networks. Educationally, the project will support both formal instruction
through interdisciplinary computational biology classes and hands-on in-depth
research experience for undergraduates.
Oprisan holds a B.S. in Physics from Alexandru Ioan Cuza university, Iasi,
Romania.
He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the same university.
Oprisan holds a Masters degree in Computer Science (bioinformatics) from the University
of New Orleans. Prior to joining the College of Charleston faculty, he was
Postdoctoral Associate in computational neuroscience at the University of New Orleans.
Oprisan is a member of the Society for Neuroscience, the American Physical
Society, and the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience. He is the Vice-President of
Charleston Chapter of Sigma Xi - The Scientific Research Society.
"CAREER: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a
Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious
awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through
outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education
and research within the context of the mission of their organizations."
Link: http://downtown.live5news.com/news/people/cofc-professor-awarded-early-career-development-award-research-grant/58651
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