Staff Profile
Dr Alberto Capurro
Research Associate
- Email: alberto.capurro@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: 07794325875
- Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/site/albertocapurro/
- Address: Institute of Bioscience
University of Newcastle
Cookson Building, Room MG178
NE2 4HH
Newcastle, UK
Research Associate at the Institute of Biosciences of Newcastle University (since 2018).
Qualifications
PhD in Biology oriented to Neuroscience and MSc in Neuroscience at PEDECIBA (Faculty of Science, UdelaR, Uruguay). MD (Faculty of Medicine, UdelaR, Uruguay).
Previous positions
• 2017-2018 Postdoctoral Research Associate at Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, Division of Neurosciences, King’s College London.
• 2012-2017 Research Associate at the Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behavior of Leicester University.
• 2008-2012 Research Associate at the Bioengineering group, Department of Engineering of Leicester University.
• 2006-2008 Post-doctoral position at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Freiburg and Section Epileptology of the University Clinic (Freiburg University, Germany).
• 2002-2005 Post-doctoral position at the Mathematical Physics Department of São Paulo University (Brazil).
• 1997-1998 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellow at the Biophysical Engineering Department of Osaka University (Japan).
• 1996-2004 Assistant Researcher at the Neurophysiology
Department of the Institute of Biological Research “Clemente Estable” (Ministry
of Education and Culture of Uruguay).