Matteo Carandini is professor of visual neuroscience at University College London, where he co-directs the Cortexlab with Kenneth Harris. His research combines experiments and computational models to understand how populations of neurons process sensory information and guide behavior. He helped establish divisive normalization as a fundamental neural computation and revealed how behavior and internal state shape visual processing. He also helped develop Neuropixels probes for recording large populations of neurons.
Carandini earned a laurea degree in mathematics at the University of Rome in 1990 and a Ph.D. in neural science at New York University in 1996. He led laboratories in Zurich and San Francisco before joining University College London in 2007. He is a member of the Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
