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PhD students supervised

2009 – 2013 Henrik Kjeldsen* now professor at Aarhus University, Denmark

2009 – 2014 Richard Tomsett BBSRC programme

2010 – 2015 Sol Lim Korean Research Foundation
2013 – 2016 Chris Papasavvas Wellcome Trust programme

2014 – 2019 Chris Thornton BBSRC programme

2014 – 2019 Frances Hutchings Computing Science Studentship

2016 – 2019 Julia Schumacher

2018 – 2020    Xue Chen*                  now professor at Qingdao University, China
2015 – 2020    Chris Hayward            SAgE Faculty DTA studentship
2017 – 2020    Ramtin Mehraram
2017 – 2021    Nishant Sinha             Computing Science / IoN studentship

2014 – 2024 Michael Mackay Staff PhD student (part-time)

*: now faculty members

PhDs examined (external)

2023 Arthur Spencer Bristol University, United Kingdom

2022 Giorgia Giulia Evangelista EPFL, Switzerland
2021 Zhuo Wan Warwick University, United Kingdom

2021 Sarbani Das Southampton University, United Kingdom

2020    Stephen Bonner                      Durham University, United Kingdom
2018    Sebastian Rinke                     Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
2018    Keith Smith                             Edinburgh University, United Kingdom
2017    Siti Makhtar                             York University, United Kingdom
2016    Ye Yao                                    Warwick University, United Kingdom

2015 Peter Eipert Rostock University, Germany

2015 Sarvenaz Choobdar University of Porto, Portugal

2012 David Samu Sussex University, United Kingdom

2011 Pedro Ribeiro University of Porto, Portugal

2007 Lucia Zemanova Potsdam University, Germany

TEACHING ACTIVITY

Higher education teaching qualification

2009 Certificate in Advanced Studies in Academic Practice, Newcastle University
recognized as Higher Education Academy (HEA) Associate Fellow

Undergraduate and graduate teaching

2002 – 2005 Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

2005 – Newcastle University

· Computing Environments for Bioinformatics module (Perl, SQL)

· Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience module

· Complex Systems module (network analysis & dynamical systems)

· Lecture on Connectomics, MSc Neuroscience

· Lecture on Neuroinformatics, IoN Research Summer School

2010 – 2012 Seoul National University

· Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience module

· Lecture on Neuroinformatics and Connectomics, PhD programme

2011 Tutorial on Connectome Analysis at Computational Neuroscience Society
Annual Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden

Public understanding of science

2022 Public Lecture Nottingham University, UK

2017                Public Lecture Computing at School North East Meeting, Newcastle, UK
2014                YouTube         Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/DynamicConnectomeLab
2013                Comic              British Science Festival, Newcastle, UK

2006 Interview BBC Radio, UK

2005 Public lecture Benjamine der Wissenschaft, Bremen, Germany

PUBLICATIONS

Currently 5,300 citations in ISI (https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/rid/A-7166-2008) and

10,400 (h-index: 49) in GoogleScholar http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ha_ZNlkAAAAJ

ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4654-3110

Books
Kaiser M. Changing Connectomes: Evolution, Development and Dynamics in Network Neuroscience. MIT Press, 2020.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/changing-connectomes

Bota M, Crook S, Kaiser M (eds.) Producing and Analyzing Macro-Connectomes: Current State and Challenges. Frontiers Research Topic, 2016.

Kaiser M, Hilgetag CC, Kötter R (eds.) Hierarchy and dynamics in neural networks. Frontiers Research Topic, 2012.

PhD thesis

2005 Neural and Biochemical Networks: Organization, Development, and Robustness

Preprints

1. Atkinson-Clement C, Junor A, Kaiser M. A large-scale online survey of patients and the general public: Preferring safe and noninvasive neuromodulation for mental health. medRxiv 2024-301043v3, 2024.

2. Atkinson-Clement C, Kaiser M, Lambon Ralph M, Jung JY. Ventricle stimulation as a potential gold-standard control stimulation site for transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation. bioRxiv 2024.05.29.596387, 2024.

3. Caffaratti H, Slater B, Shaheen N, Rhone A, Calmus R, Kritikos M, Kumar S, Dlouhy B, Oya H, Griffiths T, Boes AD, Trapp N, Kaiser M, Sallet J, Banks MI, Howard MA, Zanaty M, Petkov CI. Neuromodulation with Ultrasound: Hypotheses on the Directionality of Effects and a Community Resource. medRxiv 2024.06.14.24308829v1, 2024.

Peer-reviewed Journal Publications

1. Atkinson-Clement C, Alkhawashki M, Gatica M, Ross J, Kaiser M. Dynamic Changes in Human Brain Connectivity Following Ultrasound Neuromodulation. Scientific Reports, in press

2. Wang Y, Jiang Z, Chu C, Zhang Z, Wang J, Li D, He N, Fietkiewicz C, Zhou C, Kaiser M, Bai X, Zhang C. Push-pull effects of basal ganglia network in Parkinson's disease inferred by functional MRI. npj Parkinson's Disease, 10(1):224, 2024.

3. Zhao W, Su K, Zhu H, Kaiser M, Fan M, Zou Y, Li T, Yin D. Activity flow under the manipulation of cognitive load and training. Neuroimage, 297:120761, 2024.

4. Atkinson-Clement C, Kaiser M. Optimizing Transcranial Focused Ultrasound Stimulation: An Open-Source Tool for Precise Targeting. Neuromodulation, S1094-7159 (24) 00627, 2024.

5. Atkinson-Clement C, Alkhawashki M, Ross J, Gatica M, Zhang C, Sallet J, Kaiser M. Dynamical and individualised approach of transcranial ultrasound neuromodulation effects in non-human primates. Scientific Reports 14 (1):11916, 2024.

6. Atkinson-Clement C, Howett D, Alkhawashki M, Ross J, Slater B, Gatica M, Zhang C, Petkov C, Kaiser M. Extended Temporal Dynamics of Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation in the Primate Brain. iScience, 2024.

7. Gatica M, Atkinson-Clement C, Pedro A. M. Mediano PAM, Alkhawashki M, Ross J, Sallet J, Kaiser M. Transcranial ultrasound stimulation effect in the redundant and synergistic networks consistent across macaques. Network Neuroscience, 1–19, 2024.

8. Yang Y, Shuai C, Long W, Dong L, Kaiser M. User Identification, Cross-layer, Topology Consistency, Link Prediction, Multilayer Complex Network. Neurocomputing, 2024.

9. Kaiser M. Ten simple rules for establishing an experimental lab. PLOS Computational Biology 20:e1011778, 2024.

10. Kopetzky SJ, Li Y, Kaiser M, Butz-Ostendorf M. Predictability of intelligence and age from structural connectomes. PLOS ONE 19(4):e0301599, 2024.

11. Mackay M, Huo S, Kaiser M. Spatial organisation of the mesoscale connectome: A feature influencing synchrony and metastability of network dynamics. PLOS Computational Biology, 19(8): e1011349, 2023.

12. Kaiser M. Connectomes: From a sparsity of networks to large-scale databases. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics 17:1170337, 2023

13. Hayward C, Huo S, Chen X, Kaiser M. Non-optimal component placement of the human connectome supports variable brain dynamics. Network Neuroscience 7(1), 254-268, 2023.

14. Yu Q, Yin D, Kaiser M, Xu G, Guo M, Liu F, Li J, Fan M. Pathway-Specific Mediation Effect between Structure, Function, and Motor Impairment After Subcortical Stroke. Neurology, 100 (6), e616-e626, 2023.

15. Zaaimi B, Turnbull M, Hazra A, Wang Y, de Souza CG, Escobedo-Cousin E, Idil AS, Bailey R, Tardio S, Patel A, Ponon N, Hutchings F, Kaiser M, Cunningham MO, Clowry GJ, LeBeau FE, Constandinou TG, Baker SN, Donaldson N, Degenaar P, O’Neill A, Trevelyan AJ, Jackson A. Closed-loop optogenetic control of normal and pathological network dynamics. Nature Biomedical Engineering, 7 (4), 559-575, 2023.

16. Mehraram R., Peraza L.R., Murphy N.R.E., Cromarty R.A., Graziadio S., O’Brien J.T., Killen A., Colloby S.J., Firbank M., Su L., Collerton D., Taylor J.-P., Kaiser M. Functional and structural brain network correlates of visual hallucinations in Lewy body dementia. Brain, 145 (6), 2190-2205, 2022.

17. Huo S, Yong Zou Y, Kaiser M, Liu Z. Time-limited self-sustaining rhythms and state transitions in brain networks. Physical Review Research, 4 (2), 023076, 2022.

18. Lai Y, Naying He N, Wei H, Deng L, Zhou H, Li J, Kaiser M, Zhang C, Li D, Sun B. Value of functional connectivity in outcome prediction for pallidal stimulation in Parkinson's disease. Journal of Neurosurgery, 2022.

19. Breitwieser L, Hesam A, de Montigny J, Vavourakis V, Iosif A, Jennings J, Kaiser M, Manca M, Di Meglio A, Al-Ars Z, Rademakers F, Mutlu O, Bauer R. BioDynaMo: a modular platform for high-performance agent-based simulation. Bioinformatics, 38 (2), 453-460, 2022.

20. Jiang S, Otero-Muras I, Banga J, Wang Y, Kaiser M, Krasnogor N. OptDesign: Identifying Optimum Design Strategies in Strain Engineering for Biochemical Production. ACS Synthetic Biology, 2022.

21. Ortiz-Rios M, Balezeau F, Haag M, Schmid MC, Kaiser M. Dynamic reconfiguration of macaque brain networks during natural vision. Neuroimage, 244, 118615, 2021.

22. Firfilionis D, Hutchings F, Tamadoni R, Walsh D, Turnbull M, Escobedo-Cousin E, Bailey RG, Gausden J, Patel A, Haci D, Liu Y, LeBeau F, Trevelyan A, Constandinou TG, O'Neill A, Kaiser M, Degenaar P, Jackson A. A Closed-Loop Optogenetic Platform. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15, 718311, 2021.

23. Chen X, Necus J, Peraza Rodriguez L, Mehraram R, Wang Y, O'Brien J, Blamire A, Kaiser M, Taylor JP. The functional brain favours segregated modular connectivity at old age unless targeted by neurodegeneration. Nature Communications Biology, 4 (1), 1-16, 2021.

24. Chen X, Wang Y, Kopetzky SJ, Butz-Ostendorf M, Kaiser M. Connectivity within regions characterizes epilepsy duration and treatment outcome. Human Brain Mapping, 42: 3777-3791, 2021.

25. Hall GR, Kaiser M, Farr TD. Stroke induced functional connectivity change is comparable from mouse to man. Stroke, doi:10.1161/STROKEAHA.121.034097, 2021.

26. Yin D, Kaiser M. Understanding Neural Flexibility from a Multifaceted Definition. Neuroimage, 235:118027, 2021.

27. Bauer R, Clowry G, Kaiser M. Creative destruction: a basic computational model of cortical layer formation. Cerebral Cortex, 31:3237-3253, 2021.

28. Lee S, Kim D, Youn HC, Hyung WSW, Suh S, Kaiser M, Han CE, Jeong HG. Brain network analysis reveals that amyloidopathy affects comorbid cognitive dysfunction in older adults with depression. Scientific Reports, 11:4299, 2021.

29. Carmon J, Heege J, Necus JH, Owen TW, Pipa G, Kaiser M, Taylor PN, Wang Y. Reliability and comparability of human brain structural covariance networks. Neuroimage 117104, 2020.

30. Hutchings F, Thornton C, Zhang C, Wang Y, Kaiser M. Predicting the Impact of Electric Field Stimulation in a Detailed Computational Model of Cortical Tissue. Journal of Neural Engineering, in press (arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.10414).

31. Kaiser M. Functional compensation after lesions: Predicting site and extent of recovery. arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.03093, 2020.

32. Jiang S, Li H, Guo J, Zhong M, Yang S, Kaiser M, Krasnogor N. NIHBA: A Network Interdiction Approach for Metabolic Engineering Design. Bioinformatics, 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa163, 2020.

33. Papasavvas CA, Trevelyan AJ, Kaiser M, Wang Y. Divisive gain modulation enables flexible and rapid entrainment in a neocortical microcircuit model. Journal of Neurophysiology, 123:1133-1143, 2020.

34. Giannakakis E, Hutchings F, Papasavvas CA, Han CE, Weber B, Zhang C, Kaiser M. Computational modelling of the long-term effects of brain stimulation on the local and global structural connectivity of epileptic patients. PLOS ONE 15 (2), e0221380, 2020.

35. Giannakakis E, Han CE, Weber B, Hutchings F, Kaiser M. Towards simulations of long-term behavior of neural networks: Modelling synaptic plasticity of connections within and between human brain regions. Neurocomputing, 416:38-44, 2020.

36. Jiang S, Li H, Guo J, Zhong M, Yang S, Kaiser M, Krasnogor N. AREA: An adaptive reference-set based evolutionary algorithm for multiobjective optimisation. Information Sciences 515: 365-387, 2020.

37. Mehraram R, Kaiser M, Cromarty R, Graziadio S, O'Brien JT, Killen A, Taylor JP, Peraza LR. Weighted network measures reveal differences between dementia types: An EEG study. Human Brain Mapping 41: 1573– 1590, 2020.

38. Kaiser M. Computational models and fundamental constraints can inform the design of synthetic connectomes. Physics of Life Reviews, 2019.

39. Schumacher J, Cromarty R, Gallagher P, Firbank MJ, Thomas AJ, Kaiser M, Blamire AM, O’Brien JT, Peraza LR, Taylor JP. Structural correlates of attention dysfunction in Lewy body dementia and Alzheimer’s disease: An ex-Gaussian analysis. Journal of Neurology, 266(7): 1716–1726, 2019.

40. Schumacher J, Peraza L, Firbank M, Thomas A, Kaiser M, Gallagher P, O’Brien J, Blamire A, Taylor JP. Dysfunctional brain dynamics and their origin in Lewy body dementia. Brain, 142(6): 1767–1782, 2019.

41. Schumacher J, Peraza L, Firbank M, Thomas A, Kaiser M, Gallagher P, O’Brien J, Blamire A, Taylor JP. Dynamic functional connectivity changes in dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer's disease. Neuroimage:Clinical, 22: 101812, 2019.

42. Jiang S, Kaiser M, Yang S, Krasnogor N. A Scalable Test Suite for Continuous Dynamic Multiobjective Optimisation. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 1-13, 10.1109/TCYB.2019.2896021, 2019.

43. Thornton C, Hutchings F, Kaiser M. The Virtual Electrode Recording Tool for EXtracellular Potentials (VERTEX) Version 2.0: Modelling in vitro electrical stimulation of brain tissue. Wellcome Open Research, 4:20, 2019.

44. Sinha N, Wang Y, Dauwels J, Kaiser M, Thesen T, Forsyth R, Taylor PN. Computer modelling of connectivity change suggests epileptogenesis mechanisms in idiopathic generalised epilepsy. Neuroimage:Clinical, 21:101655, 2019.

45. Peraza LR, Díaz A, Kennion O, Moratal B, Taylor JP, Kaiser M, Bauer R. Structural connectivity centrality changes mark the path towards Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 11:98-107, 2019.

46. Cromarty RA, Schumacher J, Graziadio S, Gallagher P, Killen A, Firbank MJ, Blamire AM, Kaiser M, Thomas AJ, O'Brien JT, Peraza LR, Taylor JP. Structural Brain Correlates of Attention Dysfunction in Lewy Body Dementias and Alzheimer’s Disease. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 10.3389/fnagi.2018.00347, 2018.

47. Schumacher J, Peraza L, Firbank M, Thomas A, Kaiser M, Gallagher P, O’Brien J, Blamire A, Taylor JP. Functional connectivity in dementia with Lewy bodies: A within- and between-network analysis. Human Brain Mapping, 10.1002/hbm.23901, 2018.

48. Gonzalez-de-Aledo P, Vladimirov A, Manca M, Baugh J, Asai R, Kaiser M, Bauer R.
An optimization approach for agent-based computational models of biological development. Advances in Engineering Software, 121:262-275, 2018.

49. Kaiser M. Mechanisms of Connectome Development. Trends in Cognitive Sciences,
21:703-717, 2017.

50. Wang Y, Trevelyan AJ, Taylor PN, Valentin A, Alarcon G, Kaiser M. Mechanisms underlying different onset patterns of focal seizures. PLOS Computational Biology, 13(5): e1005475, 2017.

51. Sinha N, Dauwels J, Kaiser M, Cash SS, Brandon Westover M, Wang Y, Taylor PN. Reply: Computer models to inform epilepsy surgery strategies: prediction of postoperative outcome. Brain doi:10.1093/brain/awx068, 2017.

52. Bauer R, Kaiser M. Nonlinear growth: an origin of hub organization in complex networks. Royal Society Open Science, 4:160691, 2017.

53. Peraza L, Nesbitt D, Lawson R, Duncan G, Yarnall A, Khoo T, Kaiser M, Firbank M, O'Brien J, Barker R, Brooks D, Burn D, Taylor JP. Intra- and inter-network functional alterations in Parkinson’s disease with mild cognitive impairment. Human Brain Mapping, 38(3):1702-1715, 2017.

54. Taylor PN, Wang Y, Kaiser M. Within brain area tractography suggests local modularity using high resolution connectomics. Scientific Reports, 7:39859, 2017.

55. Sinha N, Dauwels J, Wang Y, Kaiser M, Cash SS, Westover MB, Taylor PN.
Predicting neurosurgical outcomes in focal epilepsy patients using computational modelling. Brain, 140(2):319-332, 2017.

56. Wang Y, Necus J, Kaiser M, Mota B. Universality in human cortical folding in health and disease. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 113(45):12820–12825, 2016.

57. Ainsworth M, Lee S, Kaiser M, Simonotto J, Cunningham MO, Kopell N, Whittington MA. GABA_B receptor-mediated, layer-specific synaptic plasticity reorganises gamma frequency neocortical response to stimulation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 113:E2721–E2729, 2016.

58. Thanarajah SE, Han CE, Rotarska-Jagiela A, Singer W, Deichmann R, Maurer K, Kaiser M, Uhlhaas P. Abnormal Connectional Fingerprints in Schizophrenia: A Novel Network Analysis of Diffusion Tensor Imaging Data. Frontiers in Psychiatry 7:114, 2016.

59. Luis R. Peraza LR, Colloby SJ, Deboys L, O’Brien JT, Kaiser M, Taylor JP. Regional functional synchronizations in dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer’s disease. International Psychogeriatrics, 28(7):1143-1151, 2016.

60. Hutchings F, Han CE, Keller S, Weber B, Taylor PN, Kaiser M. Predicting Surgery Targets in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy through Structural Connectome Based Simulations.
PLOS Computational Biology 11:e1004642, 2015.

61. Lo YP, O'Dea R, Crofts JJ, Han CE, Kaiser M. A geometric network model of intrinsic grey-matter connectivity of the human brain. Scientific Reports 5:15397, 2015.

62. Papasavvas CA, Wang Y, Trevelyan AJ, Kaiser M. Gain control through divisive inhibition prevents abrupt transition to chaos in a neural mass model. Physical Review E 92:032723, 2015.

63. Peraza LR, Colloby SJ, Firbank MJ, Greasy GS, McKeith IG, Kaiser M, O’Brien J, Taylor JP. Resting state in Parkinson’s disease dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies: Commonalities and differences. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 30: 1135–1146, 2015.

64. Peraza LR, Taylor JP, Kaiser M. Divergent brain functional network alterations in dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiology of Aging 36: 2458–2467, 2015.

65. Kjeldsen H, Kaiser M, Whittington MA. Near-Field Electromagnetic Holography for high-resolution analysis of network interactions in neuronal tissue. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 253:1-9, 2015.

66. Taylor PN, Thomas J, Sinha N, Dauwels J, Kaiser M, Thesen T, Ruths J. Optimal control based seizure abatement using patient derived connectivity. Frontiers in Neuroscience 9:202, 2015.

67. Kaiser M. Neuroanatomy: Connectome Connects Fly and Mammalian Brain Networks.
Current Biology 25:R416–R418, 2015.

68. Lim S, Han CE, Uhlhaas P, Kaiser M. Preferential Detachment During Human Brain Development: Age- and Sex- Specific Structural Connectivity in Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) Data. Cerebral Cortex, 25(6):1477-1489, 2015.

69. Tomsett RJ, Ainsworth M, Thiele A, Sanayei M, Chen X, Gieselmann A, Whittington MA, Cunningham MO, Kaiser M. Virtual Electrode Recording Tool for EXtracellular potentials (VERTEX): Comparing multi-electrode recordings from simulated and biological mammalian cortical tissue. Brain Structure and Function, 220: 2333-2353, 2015.

70. Yoo SW, Han CE, Shin JS, Seo SW, Na DL, Kaiser M, Jeong Y, Seong JK. A Network Flow-based Analysis of Cognitive Reserve in Normal Ageing and Alzheimer’s Disease. Nature Scientific Reports 5:10057, 2015.

71. Taylor PN, Han CE, Schoene-Baked JC, Weber B, Kaiser M. Structural connectivity changes in temporal lobe epilepsy: Spatial features contribute more than topological measures. Neuroimage:Clinical 8:322-328, 2015.

72. Lim S, Kaiser M. Overlapping time windows for axon growth lead to higher bidirectionality and non-overlapping time windows produce longer connections in a computer model of neuronal network development. Biological Cybernetics 109:275-286, 2015.

73. Kim JS, Kaiser M. From Caenorhabditis elegans to the Human Connectome: Lower dispersion and fewer rules reduce evolutionary and developmental costs.
Phil Trans Roy Soc B 369:20130529, 2014.

74. Huett MT, Kaiser M, Hilgetag CC. Perspective: Network-guided pattern formation of neural dynamics. Phil Trans Roy Soc B 369:20130522, 2014.

75. Bauer R, Kaiser M, Stoll E. A computational model for the origins of glioma. PLOS ONE 9: e111219, 2014.

76. Taylor PN, Kaiser M, Dauwels J. Structural connectivity based whole brain modelling in epilepsy. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 236:51–57, 2014.

77. Peraza L, Kaiser M, Firbank M, Graziadio S, Bonanni L, Onofrj M, Blamire A, O'Brien J, Taylor JP. fMRI resting state networks and their association with cognitive fluctuations in dementia with Lewy bodies. NeuroImage:Clinical 4:558–565, 2014.

78. Klein D, Rotarska-Jagiela A, Genc E, Shritaran S, Mohr H, Roux F, Han CE, Kaiser M, Singer W, Uhlhaas PJ. Adolescent Brain Maturation and Cortical Folding: Evidence for Reductions in Gyrification. PLOS ONE, 9:e84914, 2014.

79. Kaiser M. The potential of the human connectome as a biomarker of brain disease. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7:484, 2013.

80. O’Dea R, Crofts J, Kaiser M. Spreading Dynamics On Spatially Constrained Complex Brain Networks. Journal of the Royal Society: Interface 10: 20130016, 2013.

81. Bohr I, Kenny E, Blamire A, O'Brien J, Thomas A, Richardson R, Kaiser M. Resting-state functional connectivity in late-life depression: higher global connectivity and more long distance connections. Frontiers in Neuropsychiatric Imaging and Stimulation 3:116. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2012.00116, 2013.

82. Marcelino J, Kaiser M. Critical paths in a metapopulation model of H1N1: Efficiently delaying influenza spreading through flight cancellation.
PLoS Currents Influenza, doi: 10.1371/4f8c9a2e1fca8, 2012.

83. Zawadzki K, Echtermeyer C, Viana MP, Kaiser M, Costa LdF. Morphological Homogeneity of Neurons: Searching for outliers in inner categories of neuronal cells. Neuroinformatics 10:379-389, 2012.

84. Comin CH, Batistista JLB, Viana MP, Costa LdF, Travencolo BAN, Kaiser M. Structure and dynamics: The transition from non-equilibrium to equilibrium in integrate-and-fire dynamics. Int. J. of Bifurcation and Chaos 22: 1250174, 2012.

85. Kaiser M, Varier S. Evolution and Development of Brain Networks: From Caenorhabditis elegans to Homo sapiens. Network: Computation in Neural Systems 22:143-147, 2011.

86. Varier S, Kaiser M, Forsyth R. Establishing, versus maintaining, brain function: a neurocomputational model of injury to the immature brain. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 17: 1030-1038, 2011.

87. Echtermeyer C, Han CE, Rotarska-Jagiela A, Mohr H, Uhlhaas P, Kaiser M. Integrating temporal and spatial scales: Human structural network motifs across age and region-of-interest size. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics 5:10, 2011.

88. Kaiser M. A Tutorial in Connectome Analysis: Topological and Spatial Features of Brain Networks. Neuroimage 57:892–907, 2011.

89. Echtermeyer C, Rodriguez F, Costa FdL, Kaiser M. Automatic network fingerprinting through singular node motifs. PLoS ONE 6(1):e15765, 2011.

90. Varier S, Kaiser M. Neural development features: Spatio-temporal development of the C. elegans neuronal network. PLoS Computational Biology 7:e1001044, 2011.

91. Kaiser M, Hilgetag CC, Koetter R. Hierarchy and dynamics of neural networks. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics 4:112, 2010.

92. Kaiser M, Hilgetag CC. Optimal hierarchical modular topologies for producing limited sustained activation of neural networks. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics 4:8, 2010.

93. Roopun AK, Simonotto JD, Jenkins A, Schofield IS, Whittaker RG, Kaiser M, Whittington MA, Traub RD, Cunningham MO. A nonsynaptic mechanism underlying interictal discharges in human epileptic neocortex. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107:338-343, 2010.

94. Marcelino J, Kaiser M. Efficient network spreading slow-down through edge removal. PLoS Currents: Influenza RRN1005, 2009.

95. Kaiser M, Hilgetag CC, van Ooyen A. A simple rule for axon outgrowth and synaptic competition generates realistic connection lengths and filling fractions. Cerebral Cortex, 19(12):3001-3010, 2009.

96. Ribeiro P, Simonotto J, Kaiser M, Silva F. Parallel calculation of multi-electrode array correlation networks. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 184:357-364, 2009.

97. da Fontoura Costa L, Rodridues FA, Hilgetag CC, Kaiser M. Detecting characteristic singular node motifs in complex networks. Europhysics Letters 87:18008, 2009.

98. Roopun AK, Kramer, MA, Carracedo LM, Kaiser M, Davies C, Traub R, Kopell NJ, Whittington MA. Temporal interactions between cortical rhythms. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2(2):145-154, 2008.

99. Kaiser M. Mean clustering coefficients - the role of isolated nodes and leafs on clustering measures for small-world networks. New Journal of Physics, 10:083042, 2008.

100. Roopun AK, Kramer, MA, Carracedo LM, Kaiser M, Davies C, Traub R, Kopell NJ, Whittington MA. Period concatenation underlies interactions between gamma and beta rhythms in neocortex. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2:1, 2008.

101. Kaiser M. Brain architecture: a design for natural computation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 365:3033-3045, 2007.

102. Nisbach F, Kaiser M. Developmental time windows for spatial growth generate multiple-cluster small-world networks. European Physical Journal B, 58:185-191, 2007.

103. Kaiser M, Hilgetag CC. Development of multi-cluster cortical networks by time windows for spatial growth. Neurocomputing, 70(10-12):1829-1832, 2007.

104. da Fontoura Costa L, Kaiser M, Hilgetag CC. Predicting the connectivity of primate cortical networks from topological and spatial node properties. BMC Systems Biology, 1:16, 2007.

105. Kaiser M, Martin R, Andras P, Young MP. Simulation of robustness against lesions of cortical networks. European Journal of Neuroscience, 25:3185-3192, 2007.

106. Kaiser M, Goerner M, Hilgetag CC. Criticality of spreading dynamics in hierarchical cluster networks without inhibition. New Journal of Physics, 9:110, 2007.

107. Lappe M, Kuhlmann S, Oerke B, Kaiser M. The fate of object features during perisaccadic mislocalization. Journal of Vision, 6:1282-1293, 2006.

108. Kaiser M, Hilgetag CC. Nonoptimal component placement, but short processing paths, due to long-distance projections in neural systems.
PLoS Computational Biology, e95, 2006.

109. Sporns O, Chialvo D, Kaiser M, Hilgetag C. Organization, development and function of complex brain networks. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8:418, 2004.

110. Kaiser M, Hilgetag CC. Edge vulnerability in neural and metabolic networks. Biological Cybernetics, 90:311-317, 2004.

111. Kaiser M, Hilgetag CC. Modelling the development of cortical networks. Neurocomputing, 58-60:297-302, 2004.

112. Hilgetag CC, Kaiser M. Clustered organisation of cortical connectivity. Neuroinformatics, 2:353-360, 2004.

113. Kaiser M, Hilgetag CC. Spatial growth of real-world networks. Physical Review E, 69:036103, 2004.

114. Kaiser M, Lappe, M. Perisaccadic mislocalization orthogonal to saccade direction. Neuron, 41:293-300, 2004.

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings

1. Torres M, Jiang S, Pelta D, Kaiser M, Krasnogor N. Strain Design as Multiobjective Network Interdiction Problem: A Preliminary Approach. CAEPIA, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 2018.

2. Jiang S,Krasnogor N, Kaiser M, Wan S, Guo J, Yang S. An empirical study of dynamic triobjective optimisation problems. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2018.

3. Jiang S, Kaiser M, Guo J, Yang S, Krasnogor N. Less detectable environmental changes in dynamic multiobjective optimisation. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 673-680, 2018.

4. Han CE, Peraza LR, Taylor JP, Kaiser M. Predicting Age across Human Lifespan Based on Structural Connectivity from Diffusion Tensor Imaging. IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, 2014.

5. Brust MR, Turgut D, Ribeiro CHC, Kaiser M. Is the Clustering Coefficient a Measure for Fault Tolerance in Wireless Sensor Networks? IEEE International Conference on Communication, 2012.

6. Ribeiro P, Silva F, Kaiser M. Strategies for Network Motifs Discovery. Fifth IEEE International Conference on e-Science, 2009.

7. Smith LS, Austin J, Baker S, Borisyuk R, Eglen S, Feng J, Gurney K, Jackson T,

Kaiser M, Overton P, Panzeri S, Quian Quiroga R, Schultz SR, Sernagor E, Smith VA, Smulders TV, Stuart L, Whittington MA, Ingram CD. The CARMEN e-Science pilot project: Neuroinformatics work packages. Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, 591-598, 2007.

Book chapters

1. Bauer R, Kaiser M, Cardarelli R, Aielli G. Considerations on Brain-Machine Interfaces from a Neuroscience and Physics Perspective. In: Handbook of Complexity in Medicine. Springer, 2025.

2. Jiang S, Torres M, Pelta D, Krabben P, Kaiser M, Krasnogor N. Improving microbial strain design via multiobjective optimisation and decision making. In: AI for Synthetic Biology 2, 2018.

3. Bauer R, Breitwieser L, Di Meglio A, Johard L, Kaiser M, Manca M, Rademakers F, Talanov M, Tchitchigin AD. The BioDynaMo Project: Experience Report. In: Vallverdu, Mazzara, Talanov, Distefano & Lowe: Advanced Research on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures. IGI Global, 2017.

4. Lim S, Hutchings F, Kaiser M. Modeling the impact of lesions in the brain. In: van Ooyen & Butz-Ostendorf, Rewiring the Brain: A Computational Approach to Structural Plasticity in the Adult Brain. Academic Press, 2017.

5. Bauer R, Kaiser M. Organisational Principles of Connectomes: Changes during Evolution and Development. In: Shigeno, Murakami & Nomura, Brain Evolution by Design. Springer, 2017.

6. Wang Y, Hutchings F, Kaiser M. Computational Modelling of Neurostimulation in Brain Diseases. Progress in Brain Research, Vol. 222, Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 191-228, 2015.

7. Kaiser M. Neuropathologies and Networks. Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, 2014.

8. Kaiser M, Hilgetag C. Wiring principles, Optimization. Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, 2014.

9. Kaiser M, Simonotto J. Limited Spreading: How Hierarchical Networks prevent the Transition to the Epileptic State. In Steyn-Ross/Steyn-Ross: Modeling Phase Transitions in the Brain". Springer, 2010.

10. Kaiser M, Simonotto J. Structural and Functional Dynamics in Cortical and Neuronal Networks. In: Dehmer /Emmert-Streib, Analysis of Complex Networks: From Biology to Linguistics". Wiley-VCH, 2009.

11. Kaiser M. Multiple-scale hierarchical connectivity of cortical networks limits the spread of activity. In: Soltesz/Stanley: Computational Neuroscience in Epilepsy". Academic Press, New York, 2008.

12. Hilgetag CC, Kaiser M. Organization and Function of Complex Cortical Networks. In: beim Graben/Zhou/Thiel/Kurths: Lectures in supercomputational neuroscience: dynamics in complex brain networks". Springer, Heidelberg, 2008.

Book reviews

1. Kaiser M. Book review for ‘Rao R: Brain-computer interfacing: an introduction. Cambridge University Press’ in ACM Computing Reviews, 2014.

2. Kaiser M. Book review for ‘Sporns O: Discovering the human connectome. MIT Press’ in ACM Computing Reviews, 2012.

3. Kaiser M. Book review for ‘Oliveira & Stewart: Writing Scientific Software: A Guide to Good Style. Cambridge University Press’, Higher Education Academy (HEA) Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences, 2008.

Other publications

1. Gibson F, Overton P, Smulders T, Schultz S, Eglen SJ, Ingram CD, Panzeri S, Bream P, Sernagor E, Cunningham M, Adams C, Echtermeyer C, Simonotto J, Kaiser M, Swan D, Fletcher M, Lord P. Minimum Information about a Neuroscience Investigation (MINI) Electrophysiology. Nature Precedings 1720.1, 2008.

2. Hilgetag CC, Kaiser M. Die Netzwerk-Struktur biologischer Systeme. BIOforum, (4):32-33, 2005.

3. Kaiser M. Spatial network growth: Generating small-world, scale-free, and multi-cluster spatial networks. Technical Report No. 1, IUB School of Engineering and Science, 2005

Press coverage / Public engagement

1. Interview for psychreg.org, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQtSBYTJe9k

2. 健康地老去 / Staying healthy as we age, Advance Medical, 2019
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/mj7j-Fw6BvRCGjEaiCNV-Q

3. Video interview for the Alzheimer Research UK (ARUK) conference, 2019
https://vjdementia.com/speaker/marcus-kaiser/

4. How even our brains get ‘slacker’ as we age (author: Dr Yujiang Wang): BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Der Standard, El Mundo, Sun, October 2016

5. Virtual brain surgery could personalise epilepsy treatment. New Scientist, December 2015

6. Brain Connectivity Leads Girls to Mature Faster than Boys. Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Correio Braziliense, Correio do Estado, Irish Independent, Dân Trí, 自由時報, December 2013

7. British Science Festival 2013: Comic about epilepsy and Science Exhibition, September 2013

8. British Science Festival 2013: How did a brain evolve?

9. Strategies for stopping flu spreading. MIT Technology Review & Lenta.ru, May 2012

10. Timing is everything. U.S. News and Bloomberg Business, January 2011

11. Stopping spreading: One link at a time. BBSRC Business, October 2008

12. Lange Leitungen. Die Zeit, 10 August 2006

13. BBC Newcastle radio interview. 1 August 2006

14. Peter Riesbeck: Mobile Eliten. Berliner Zeitung, 14 April 2005

INVITED TALKS

Conference organization
Organizer of the symposium 'Brain Connectivity: From Structure to Function' for the annual meeting of the British Neuroscience Association. Liverpool, April 2009.

Invited speaker

3/2025           European Academy of Neurology (EAN) Science School, Salzburg, Austria
11/2024           Oxford University, UK
11/2024           Cambridge University, UK

11/2024 Foresight Neurotechnology seminar series, USA

7/2024           Hamburg University, Germany
7/2024           Southampton University, UK
5/2024           Lincoln University, UK
8/2023           Fudan University, Shanghai, China
8/2023           East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
8/2023           Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
1/2023           Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
12/2022           Nottingham Trent University, UK

12/2022           Birmingham University, UK
11/2022           Cambridge University, UK
11/2022           ANT-Neuro, Neuromeeting, Berlin, Germany
9/2022           Ernst Strüngmann Institute, Frankfurt, Germany

7/2022           City University London, UK
7/2022           Imperial College London, UK
5/2022           Newcastle University, UK
2/2022           NetWorkX Porto, Portugal
10/2021           Brain Innovation Days, panel discussion
9/2021           University of Zurich, Switzerland

4/2021 Unexplored Neuroscience, online seminar

3/2021 Indian Institute of Technology, B.H.U. Campus, India

3/2021 Leeds University, UK

9/2020 Royal Society of Biology, UK

6/2020           Nottingham University, UK
5/2020           Keele University, UK
2/2020           Bristol University, UK

1/2020           University of Tubingen, Germany
1/2020           University of Aix-Marseille, France
12/2019           East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
11/2019           RWTH Aachen, Medical School, Germany
10/2019           Shanghai Tech University, iHuman Institute, China
7/2019           University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

7/2019 University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
4/2019 East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

3/2019           EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
3/2019           Blue Brain Project, Campus Biotech, Geneva, Switzerland
11/2018           Oxford Brookes University, UK
10/2018           Jiao Tong University, Rui Jin Hospital, China
2/2018           Nottingham University, UK
12/2017           East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

11/2017           Computational Neuroscience Winter School, Antibes, France
9/2017           Birkbeck University, London, UK
2/2017           Plymouth University, UK

12/2016 BrainModes Workshop, Belgium
8/2016 East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

6/2016 Intl Conference on Discrete Models of Complex Systems, Aveiro, Portugal

6/2016 ‘Bringing Big and Complex Data into Clinical Practice’, Munich, Germany

6/2016 Leeds University, UK

5/2016 Lake Como Complex Networks Summer School, Italy

5/2016 York University, UK
2/2016 Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

1/2016           Sussex University, UK
12/2015           Neuroscience R&D Technologies Conference, Barcelona, Spain
11/2015           COSMOS EU ITN Workshop, Florence, Italy
9/2015           Connectome Workbench (Chair of panel discussion), Cambridge, UK
4/2015           Birmingham University, UK

3/2015 Porto University, Portugal

1/2015 Leicester University, UK

8/2014 Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
4/2014 Cambridge University, UK

10/2013 Nottingham University, UK

6/2013 King’s College London, UK

4/2013 Manchester University, UK

4/2013 CERN, Switzerland

2/2013 Freiburg University, Germany

5/2012 East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

2/2012           Warwick University, UK
2/2012           Nottingham Trent University, UK
  9/2011           North-East Epilepsy Research Meeting, UK
6/2011           Porto University, Portugal

5/2011           Hong Kong Baptist University, China
4/2011           Korea University, South Korea
2/2011           Bristol University, UK
8/2010           Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany
5/2010           RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Tokyo, Japan

5/2010           Distinguished Lecture Series, Seoul National University, South Korea
5/2010           National Institute of Mathematical Sciences (NIMS), South Korea
4/2010           Korean Adv. Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), South Korea
1/2010           Cambridge University, Department of Psychology, UK

11/2009 Workshop: Computational Brain, Leicester, UK
10/2009 Manchester University, School of Computer Science, UK

9/2009 International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer
Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Imperial College, London, UK

9/2009 North-East Epilepsy Research Meeting, UK
9/2009 Workshop: Mathematics for the Computational Brain, Ambleside, UK

7/2009 Computational Neuroscience Society (CNS) meeting, Berlin, Germany

5/2009 Opening Symposium, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,

Seoul National University, South Korea

2/2009 Edinburgh University, School of Informatics, UK

2/2009 Royal Edinburgh Hospital, UK

11/2008 Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, fMRI seminar, UK

11/2008 Imperial College London:
Workshop 'Complexity and Networks-Neuroscience', UK

10/2008 SAFECOMP: International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability
and Security (talk and panel discussion), Newcastle, UK

9/2008 Strathclyde Univ.: Workshop on Complexity in the Brain, Glasgow, UK

12/2007 Oxford University, John Radcliffe University Hospital, UK

10/2007 Oxford University, Said Business School, UK

3/2007 Northwestern Institute of Complex Systems: Complexity Conference, Northwestern University, USA

3/2007 Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany

2/2007 Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

1/2007 Santa Fe Institute: Workshop on Network Robustness, New Mexico, USA

10/2006 Durham University, UK

8/2006 Edinburgh University, UK

6/2006 European Bioinformatics Institute: Workshop on Biological Networks, Industry Programme, Cambridge, UK

4/2006 Aston University, Birmingham, UK

8/2005 University of Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany

10/2004 Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, USA

8/2004 Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

6/2004 Mediterranean Institute for Adv. Studies (IMEDEA), Spain

Conference talks (selected for a talk by programme committees)
2024 Brainbox Initiative meeting, London, UK
2024 Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation (FUN), Toronto, Canada

2024 Chinese Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Suzhou, China

2024 BrainNet workshop, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden

2023 Computational analysis and modelling for biomedicine, University of Surrey, UK

2023 NIHR UK Stroke Research Workshop, London, UK

2023                Midlands Epilepsy Research Day, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
2022                Advances in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, Nottingham, UK
2022                NetSci, Network Neuroscience workshop, Cyberspace

2021 NetSci, Network Neuroscience workshop, Cyberspace

2020 Dynamic Connectome symposium, Frankfurt, Germany

2020                Society of Neurobiology of Language, Cyberspace
2019                Alife Conference, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2019                Alzheimer Research UK conference, Harrogate, UK
2018                NetSci Conference, Paris, France
2017                American Epilepsy Society Conference, Washington D.C., USA
2017                European Focused Ultrasound (EUFUS) Conference, Leipzig, Germany
2017                Neurotechnology R&D Conference, London, UK
2017                Bernstein Conference, Göttingen, Germany
2017                NetSci Conference, Indianapolis, USA
2017                3R Meeting, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2017                Computing At Schools North East (CASNE), Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2017                British Neuroscience Association Conference, Birmingham, UK
2017                Computational Neurology Conference, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2016                INCF Neuroinformatics Conference, Reading, UK

2016 European Conference for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, Nottingham, UK

2015                Neuroscience Research Technologies, Barcelona, Spain
2015                ISMAR International Neuroimaging Conference, Shanghai, China
2015                NetSci Conference, Zaragoza, Spain

2014 Computational Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics workshop, Edinburgh, UK
2014 Mathematics of Brain Dynamics workshop, Birmingham University, UK

2013 American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., USA

2012 eFutures: Building Brains Workshop, Edinburgh University, UK

2012                Opening symposium, BCS MRI Center, Soul National University, Korea
2012                Fusion Science Workshop in Translational Neuroimaging,
                        Korea University, Seoul, Korea
2012                Organization of hierarchical neural networks, Bremen, Germany
2011                NIPS Satellite: Linking Brain Structure to Function, Granada, Spain
2011                Computational Neuroscience Society (CNS) meeting, Stockholm, Sweden

2011 Brain Connectivity Workshop (BCW) annual meeting, Montreal, Canada

2011 British Neuroscience Association (BNA) annual meeting, Harrogate, UK

2010                International Net-Works Conference (keynote speaker), Zaragoza, Spain
2010                UK INCF Neuroinformatics meeting, Edinburgh, UK
2009                British Neuroscience Association (BNA) annual meeting, Liverpool, UK
2009                International Conference on Network Science (NetSci 2009), Venice, Italy

2008 International Conference on Network Science (NetSci 2008), Norwich, UK

2007 Mathematical Neuroscience Network Meeting, Warwick University, UK

2007 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA

2006 Computational Neuroscience Society - Annual Meeting, Edinburgh, UK

2006 Theoretical Neuroscience Meeting, Bristol, UK

2005 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., USA

2005 Theoretical Neuroscience Meeting, Loughborough, UK

2004 & 2005 Intl. Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems (ICCNS), Boston, USA

Education/Qualifications