Dmitri A. Rusakov is Professor of Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Principal Fellow at the UCL Institute of Neurology. After a Masters degree in Physics he obtained his PhD in Neurobiology and Biophysics at the NAS Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology in Kiev. Dmitri subsequently worked in laboratories in the UK gaining an independent investigator position in 1999 at the MRC National Institute for Medical Research (Mill Hill, London), before joining UCL in 2000 and obtaining a Personal Chair in 2007. His current interests focus on complex interactions between synaptic circuits and astroglia in the brain using advanced methods of cellular imaging.

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