Liam Mcdaid

Liam J. McDaid received the B.Eng. degree (Hons.) in electrical and electronics engineering and the Ph.D. degree in solid-state devices from the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K., in 1985 and 1989, respectively. He is currently a Professor of computational neuroscience with Ulster University, Derry, U.K., where he leads the Computational Neuroscience and Neural Engineering Research Team. He is also involved in the development of software/hardware models of neural-based computational systems with a particular emphasis on the mechanisms that underpin self-repair in the human brain. He has co-authored over 120 publications in his career to date. His current research interests include modeling the role of glial cells in the functional and dysfunctional brain. Dr. McDaid received several research grants in this domain. He is currently a Collaborator on the Human Frontier Science Program and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council funded projects.