Professor Dr. Francesco Battaglia

Biography

Francesco Battaglia is a Professor at the Donders Centre for Neuroscience at Radboud University. His research focuses on neural ensemble recordings in freely behaving rodents, emphasizing the interaction between the hippocampus and neocortex and their roles in memory encoding and consolidation. He has developed advanced data analysis techniques to detect the activation of synchronized neuronal groups, known as 'cell assemblies', and characterized their interactions, particularly the replay of neural patterns. His work demonstrates the crucial role of hippocampal/prefrontal coherence in decision-making tasks, and ongoing studies involve the behavior of hippocampal place cells in transgenic models. Battaglia's contributions include large-scale neural ensemble recording and optogenetic stimulation tool development, supported by EU-funded projects. He has published extensively in neuroscience, including awards for significant papers. He has actively participated in various collaborative research and grants in the field of neural systems and memory.

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