Rate My Professor Lars Muckli

Professor Lars Muckli holds the position of Professor of Visual and Cognitive Neurosciences in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Glasgow. He serves as Director of fMRI at the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNI) and co-chairs the 7T-Imaging Center of Excellence (ICE) MRI. Boasting 24 years of experience in fMRI and multi-modal brain imaging, Muckli previously worked at the Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, collaborating with Rainer Goebel from 1996 to 2000 and Wolf Singer from 1996 to 2007. He contributed to founding the Frankfurt Brain Imaging Centre in 2004. Relocating to Glasgow in 2007, he helped establish the CCNI in 2008 and the ICE in 2017. His academic journey includes studying Cognitive Psychology at the University of Gießen, Germany, from 1992 to 1997, with minors in Mathematics, Medicine, and Philosophy, additional studies at University College London in 1995, and earning a PhD in 2002 from the Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research.

Muckli's research centers on brain imaging of cortical feedback, layer-specific fMRI signals, predictive coding theories, and multi-level cross-species computational neuroscience for context-sensitive multisensory object recognition. Since 2016, he has been involved in the Human Brain Project, leading a work package on rodent and human neuroscience, and previously held an ERC Consolidator Grant titled 'Brain reading of contextual feedback and predictions.' Key publications include 'The spatial precision of contextual feedback signals in human V1' (Biology, 2023, with F.W. Smith), 'Cortical feedback signals generalise across different spatial frequencies of feedforward inputs' (NeuroImage, 2018, with Y. Revina), 'Decoding sound and imagery content in early visual cortex' (Current Biology, 2014, with P. Vetter and F.W. Smith), 'Contextual feedback to superficial layers of V1' (Current Biology, 2015, with F. De Martino et al.), and 'Cortical depth profiles in primary visual cortex for illusory and imaginary experiences' (Nature Communications, 2024, with J. Bergmann et al.). His innovations in high-resolution 7T fMRI have significantly impacted studies of perception, cognition, and consciousness.