Mattia Chini.

Mattia Chini

Principal investigator
GIGA Neurosciences, University of Liège

Mattia Chini is a principal investigator at GIGA Neurosciences at the University of Liège. His lab studies how neural activity emerges during early brain development, and how developmental programs and sensory experience shape circuits and behavior. The lab pursues these questions through a combination of in-vivo electrophysiology and neural network modeling. A second line of research examines how analytical and conceptual choices influence results in systems neuroscience, through collaborative meta-science projects.

After earning an M.D. at the University of Padova and spending a year at the Center for Sleep and Consciousness at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chini earned his Ph.D. at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, in the lab of Ileana Hanganu-Opatz. He subsequently remained there as a postdoctoral researcher and team leader, and he still holds an affiliation at the university.

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