Dr Federico E Turkheimer

 

  

Federico Turkheimer is Reader in Mathematical Neuroscience  and is Head of the PET-Methodology Group at the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre at Hammersmith Hospital . His main interest is in the application of mathematics and statistics to problems in neuroscience, particularly in imaging and genomics. He is an electronic engineer by training, holds a PhD in Nuclear Medicine and has worked in PET and neuroscience for the past 18 years holding appointments at the National Institute of Mental Health (Bethesda), at the University of Cambridge and at the MRC Cyclotron Unit on the Hammersmith Campus.

Teaching

• Statistics (Basic Principles/SPSS)
• Positron Emission Tomography
• "Experimental Design and Practical Data Analysis in PET" Course (link)

Research: Mathematical Neurosciences

• Logical Bases of Statistical Inference
• Mathematical Statistics for the Analysis of Variable Rich Data
• Mathematical Models of Space
• Time-series Analysis
• Deterministic and Stochastic Chaos
• Complexity and Networks 
• Functional Imaging (PET, fMRI), Genomics
• Microglia in Neurodegeneration and Neoplasia

Professional Experience

• Functional Imaging with Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
• Nonlinear Systems Modeling (Pharmacokinetics)
• Robust Statistics, Multivariate Statistical Analysis
• Autoradiographic quantitative techniques on rodents

Software

• PHI-Wave: Functional Imaging Analysis in Wavelet Space (SPM2 toolbox)
• Super-PK: Reference extraction for [11C]-(R)-PK11195 PET studies
• CHROMOWAVE: Microarrays Data Analysis

Consultancy

Imperial College Consultants (PET)