Rate My Professor Ingo Bojak

Bojak's career includes obtaining his PhD in Germany, followed by postdoctoral research in Australia at institutions in Adelaide and Melbourne. He served as Senior Postdoctoral Fellow and Tenure Track Lecturer at the Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands, before joining the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics at the University of Birmingham. At Reading, he leads interdisciplinary projects and recently secured a £866,000 three-year grant from the John Templeton Foundation for “Developing measures of purpose – platelets, calcium signalling, and model predictive control,” advancing computational methods to quantify purpose-driven activity in biological systems like blood clotting platelets, with applications to cardiovascular disease. Bojak served as Publications Chair for the Organization for Computational Neurosciences in 2023, supervises PhD students, and participates in postgraduate research direction and equality and diversity committees. Key publications include “Modulation of visually evoked cortical fMRI responses by phase of ongoing occipital alpha” (2011), “Ketamine, propofol, and the EEG: A neural field analysis of induced oscillatory activity in the alpha-rhythm” (2013), “Mistake-Making: A Theoretical Framework for Generating Research Questions in Biology, with Application to Mistakes in ‘Living’ Systems” (2022), and “Spontaneous slow wave oscillations in extracellular field potentials of mouse primary visual cortex” (2024).