NEUROPHYSICS AND NONLINEAR DYNAMICS GROUP

André Longtin, Ph.D. Professor of Physics Director, Center for Neural Dynamics Physics Department 150 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa,Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5 TEL: 613-562-5800 ext. 6762 FAX: 613-562-5190 alongtin at uottawa.ca Cross-Appointments: Cellular and Molecular Medicine                                      Mathematics and Statistics

 RESEARCH      PUBLICATIONS      GROUP      MEDIA      JOBS      WORKSHOPS

NSERC-CREATE Training Initiative in Quantitative Biomedicine (Principal Investigator)

CENTER FOR NEURAL DYNAMICS                   

UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS

OTTAWA INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMS BIOLOGY               

BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS IN CANADA                       

  EDUCATION

  B.Sc. Physics 1983, Université de Montréal

  M.Sc. Physics, 1985, Université de Montréal  (Theoretical Biophysics). 

     Prof. Jean-Robert Derome, supervisor.
     Thesis: ``Mathematical Model of the Human Acoustic reflex.''  (in French)

  Ph.D. Physics, 1989, McGill University, Montréal (Nonlinear Dynamics)

     Prof. Michael Mackey, supervisor
     Dr. John Milton (McGill and Montreal Neurological Institute), co-supervisor
     Thesis: ``Nonlinear Oscillations, Noise and Chaos in Neural Delayed Feedback.''

  EMPLOYMENT

• Visiting Professor, Brain-Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (January-March 2006)
• Full Professor, Department of Physics, University of Ottawa (May 2002+)
• Visiting Professor, Institut fuer Physik, Humboldt Universitaet Berlin, and
Max-Planck-Arbeitsgruppe ``Nichtlineare Dynamik'', Potsdam Universitaet (Sept.-Oct. 1999)
• Associate Professor, University of Ottawa, Physics Department (1997+; tenured December 1995)
• Visiting Researcher, Santa Fe Institute for Studies of Complexity (summer 1992)
• Member, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine, McGill University (since 1992)
• Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa, Physics Department (1992-1996)
• NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow,  Complex Systems Group T13 (Dr. Doyne Farmer, group leader) and Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA (1989-1991)
• Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, Biomedical Research Group (summer 1983)
• Laboratoire de Physique Nucleaire, Universite de Montreal (summers of 1981 and 1982)

  RESEARCH KEYWORDS

  HONORS AND AWARDS

• NSERC DAS Award (Discovery Accelerator Supplement), 2009.
• Reviewer Board, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
• Editorial Board, Biological Cybernetics (Springer)
• Editorial Board, Cognitive Neurodynamics (Springer)
• University of Ottawa Inaugural Prize for Interdisciplinary Research  2004  (shared with Len Maler)
• Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (2003)
• Faculty of Science Researcher of the Year, University of Ottawa (2002)
• Ontario Premier's Research Excellence Award  (awarded in first round, April 1999)
• Prix d'Excellence de l'Academie des Grands Montrealais (best thesis in pure and applied science across the four Montreal universities, 1990)
• Bellman Prize - best paper in the journal Mathematical Biosciences for the years 1988-1989 (shared with co-author J. Milton)
• NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (1989-1991)
• Director's Funding, Los Alamos National Laboratory (1989-1991)
• NSERC Postgraduate Fellowship (1983-1988)
• McConnell Memorial Fellowship, McGill U. (1989)