Dr. Mick Craig

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Mick Craig is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging at the University of Glasgow. He completed his undergraduate degree in Neuroscience at the University of Glasgow in 2006, which included a year in the pharmaceutical industry researching schizophrenia at Merck, Sharp Dohme. He then moved to the University of Oxford for a four-year Wellcome Trust DPhil in the OXION programme, working with Professor Ole Paulsen and Dr. Louise Upton, graduating in 2011. Following this, he spent time at the University of Cambridge completing his DPhil and then worked as a Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA, under Dr. Chris McBain. In early 2016, he established a research group at the University of Exeter on an early career fellowship funded by the Vandervell Foundation, before taking up his current position at Glasgow in 2020. His research interests focus on the role of interneurons in coordinating brain activity and understanding disruptions in neuronal communication related to psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders.

Research Interests

Experience

Senior Lecturer

2020-01-01 — Present

University of Glasgow • Glasgow, UK

Teaching and researching in the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging.

Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow

2011-01-01 — 2016-01-01

National Institutes of Health • Bethesda, USA

Conducted research in neurophysiology.

Research Group Leader

2016-01-01 — 2020-01-01

University of Exeter • Exeter, UK

Establishing a research group with a focus on brain activity and communication.

Awards

#2023

Preprint Award

2023-01-01

Courses

MSc Brain Sciences: Fundamentals of Neuroscience Research MSc Brain Sciences: Animal Models of Disease Function