Curriculum Vitae
Professional and academic career
2011 – present Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Neuroscience, Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research and Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London
2001 – 2011 Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Neuroscience, University College London
1997 – 2001 Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellow, Department of Physiology, University College London
1995 – 1997 HFSP Long-Term Fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Philippe Ascher, Laboratoire de Neurobiologie, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
1996 – 1999 Visiting Scientist, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA
1992 – 1995 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Bert Sakmann, Max-Planck Institut für medizinische Forschung, Heidelberg, Germany
1988 – 1992 Commonwealth Scholar and D.Phil. student, University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Editorial Boards:
2007 Neuron
2008 Frontiers in Neuroscience
2010 Faculty of 1000
2012 eLife
2012 Open Biology
2014 eNeuron
Research interests
Neural computation; Synaptic integration; Dendritic function; Neural circuits
Honours and awards
2012 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci)
2011 Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow
2010 Member of EMBO
2009 ERC Advanced Grant
1995 HFSP Long-term Fellow
1992 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
1988 Commonwealth Scholar
General administrative and organisational experience
Academic Service
2013 International review panel, SFB 1089, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
2012 – present Sectional Committee Member, Academy of Medical Sciences
2012 – present Scientific Advisory Board, Brain Mind Institute, EPFL Lausanne
2012 – present Scientific Advisory Board, Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University
2012 EMBO Membership Expansion Committee
2010 – present Scientific Advisory Board, British Neuroscience Association
2008 – present Panel member, Advanced Grants evaluation panel, European Research Council (ERC)
2009 International review panel, SFB 870, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
2007 – 2010 Co-chair of UCL Neuroscience (with Prof. Jon Driver)
2007 International review panel, Department of Neurosciences, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
2006 International review panel, SFB 720, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Selected Publications
- Stuart, G. & Häusser, M. (1994). Initiation and spread of sodium action potentials in cerebellar Purkinje cells. Neuron 13, 703-712.
- Häusser, M., Stuart, G., Racca, C. & Sakmann, B. (1995). Axonal initiation and active dendritic propagation of action potentials in substantia nigra neurons. Neuron 15, 637-647.
- Häusser, M. & Roth, A. (1997). Estimating the time course of the excitatory synaptic conductance in neocortical pyramidal cells using a novel voltage jump method. Journal of Neuroscience 17, 7606-7625.
- Häusser, M. & Clark, B.A. (1997). Tonic synaptic inhibition modulates neuronal output pattern and spatiotemporal synaptic integration. Neuron 19, 665-678.
- Wang, S.S.H., Denk, W. & Häusser, M. (2000). Coincidence detection in single dendritic spines mediated by calcium release. Nature Neuroscience 3, 1266-1273.
- Häusser, M., Major, G. & Stuart, G. (2001). Differential shunting of EPSPs by action potentials. Science 291, 138-141.
- Stuart, G. & Häusser, M. (2001). Dendritic coincidence detection of EPSPs and action potentials. Nature Neuroscience 4, 63-71.
- Vetter, P., Roth, A. & Häusser, M. (2001). Action potential propagation in dendrites depends on dendritic morphology. Journal of Neurophysiology 85, 926-937.
- London, M., Schreibman, A., Häusser, M., Larkum, M. & Segev, I. (2002). The information efficacy of a synapse. Nature Neuroscience 5, 332-340.
- Chadderton, P., Margrie, T.W., & Häusser, M. (2004). Integration of quanta in cerebellar granule cells during sensory processing. Nature 428, 856-860.
- Sjöstrom, P.J., Häusser, M. (2006). A cooperative switch determines the sign of synaptic plasticity in distal dendrites of neocortical pyramidal neurons. Neuron 51, 227-38.
- Rancz, E.A., Ishikawa, T., Duguid I., Chadderton, P., Mahon, S., Häusser, M. (2007). High-fidelity transmission of sensory information by single cerebellar mossy fibre boutons. Nature 450,1245-8.
- Kitamura, K., Judkewitz B, Kano, M., Denk, W., Häusser, M. (2008). Targeted patch-clamp recordings and single-cell electroporation of unlabeled neurons in vivo. Nature Methods 5, 61-7.
- Mathy, A., Ho, S.S., Davie, J.T., Duguid, I.C., Clark, B.A., Häusser, M. (2009). Encoding of oscillations by axonal bursts in inferior olive neurons. Neuron 62, 388–399.
- London, M., Roth, A., Beeren, L., Häusser, M., Latham, P. (2010). Sensitivity to perturbations in vivo implies high noise and suggests rate coding in cortex. Nature 466,123-7.
- Branco, T., Clark, B.A., Häusser, M. (2010). Dendritic discrimination of temporal input sequences in cortical neurons. Science 329(5999):1671-5.
- Smith, S.L., Häusser, M. (2010). Parallel processing of visual space by neighboring neurons in mouse visual cortex. Nature Neuroscience 13,1144-9.
- Branco, T., Häusser, M. (2011). Synaptic integration gradients in single cortical pyramidal cell dendrites. Neuron 69, 885-92.
- Schmidt-Hieber, C., Häusser, M. (2013). Cellular mechanisms of spatial navigation in the medial entorhinal cortex. Nature Neuroscience 16, 325-31.
- Smith, S., Smith, I.T., Branco T., Häusser, M. (2013). Dendritic spikes enhance stimulus selectivity in cortical neurons in vivo. Nature 503,115-20.
