SOMOGYVÁRI, Zoltán

Name: Zoltán Somogyvári, Ph.D.
Address: Dept. Biophysics, KFKI RIPNP of the HAS, Konkoly-Thege M. út 29-33, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Office: KFKI Campus, Building 13, Floor 2, Room 6.
E-mail: soma at mail dot kfki dot hu
Phone: +36 1 392 2222 x1238
Fax: +36 1 392 2742

Position: Senior Research Fellow

Studies and Carrier

  • 1998: MSc in Physics, Major in Biophysics, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Physics
  • 2006: PhD in Neuroscience. Title: Model based analysis of the cortical dynamics: from single cells to networks
    Semmelweis University, János Szentágothai PhD School of Neurosciences
  • 2002-2007 : Acting Head of Department: Biophysical Department, Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Grants

Research interest

    Developmet of new data analysis methods for multi-microelectrode potential recordings, in order to reveal synaptic current distribution on single neurons.
    In cooperation with István Ulbert and Tamás Kiss .
    Spatial information processing in the Hippocampal and Entorhinal system.
    Dynamical changes in the cortical dynamics during epileptic seizures. In cooperation with Sándor Borbély and Ildikó Világi .

    Teaching

      Computational Neuroscience courses in English:
      Budapest Semester in Cognitive Science, 2010
      Budapest Semester in Cognitive Science, 2009
      Central European University , Mathematical Department, 2008, 2006

      Computational Neuroscience courses in Hungarian:
      Eötvös Loránd University, 2009, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002

      Publications

      • Zsófia Huhn, Zoltán Somogyvári, Tamás Kiss, Péter Érdi: Distance Coding Strategies based on the Entorhinal Grid Cell System Neural Networks 22(5-6): 536-543 (2009)
      • Fox C, Humphries M, Mitchinson B, Kiss T, Somogyvári Z, Prescott T: Technical integration of hippocampus, basal ganglia and physical models for spatial navigation. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics (2009) 3:6
      • Ujfalussy B., Erős P., Somogyvári Z., Kiss T.: Episodes in space: A modelling study of hippocampal place representation M. Asada et al (Eds): SAB 2008, LNAI 5040, pp. 123­-136, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
      • Borbély S, Halasy K, Somogyvári Z, Détári L, Világi I.: Laminar analysis of initiation and spread of epileptiform discharges in three in vitro models. Brain Research Bulletin 69 (2) (2006) 161-167
      • Somogyvári Z, Zalányi L, Ulbert I and Érdi P: Model-based source localization of extracellular action potentials. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 147(2) (2005) 126-137
      • Földy Cs, Somogyvári Z, Érdi P: Hierarchically Organized Minority Games. Physica A, 323 (2003) 735-742
      • Érdi P, Somogyvári Z: Post-Hebbian Learning Algorithms. The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, Second edition, (M.A. Arbib, Ed.), The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. pp. 533-539
      • Somogyvári Z, Barna B, Szász A, Szente M, Érdi P: Slow dynamics of epileptic seizure: analysis and model. Neurocomputing 38-40 (2001) 921-926
      • Somogyvári Z, Payrits Sz: Length of State Cycles of Random Boolean Networks: an Analytic Study. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 33 (2000) 6699-6706
      • Somogyvári Z, Andai A, Székely G, Érdi P: On the role of self-excitation in the developement of topographic order in the visual system of the frog. BioSystems, 48 (215-222) 1998
      • Somogyvári Z, Andai A, Székely G, Érdi P: A self-organizing model of the ontogeny of the frog's visual system:the generation of the anisotropy. Cybernetics and System Research: 98 (ed. Trappl R), Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, Vienna, (317-322) 1998
Born: 1974 Szeptember 25, Budapest, Hungary
I am married, we have three children: Ármin (2000), Johanna (2002) and Magdaléna (2007)

Mount Olympus, 2010