Paul C. Bressloff is an

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biophysicist Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies approaches and methods traditionally used in physics to study Biology, biological phenomena. Biophysics covers all scales of biological organization, from Molecule, molecular to organismic ...

and mathematical neuroscientist. As of 2022, Bressloff is currently a full professor in the Department of Mathematics at the

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Education

Bressloff obtained an MA with First Class Honors from the

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in 1982, and obtained his

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from the Department of Mathematics at King's College in 1988. His thesis was titled ''Quantum field theory of superstrings in the light-cone gauge.''

Research

Bressloff has published extensively on a wide variety of applied and theoretical topics. As of 2022, he has an

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of 54, and he has published over three-hundred and fifty articles, three textbooks, and has co-written a non-fiction popular science book. He has advised more than twenty PhD recipients.

Books

Paul is the author of three textbooks in

computational biology Computational biology refers to the use of data analysis, mathematical modeling and computational simulations to understand biological systems and relationships. An intersection of computer science, biology, and big data, the field also has fo ...

, two of which deal with

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es in

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. * Bursting: The Genesis of Rhythm in the Nervous System ''with Stephen Coombes'' ''(2003)'' * Waves in Neural Media: From Single Neurons to Neural Fields ''(2013)'' * Stochastic Processes in Cell Biology ''(2014)'' * Stochastic Processes in Cell Biology: Volume II ''(2022)''

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