Associate ProfessorBen Fulcher

Ben Fulcher leads the Dynamics and Neural Systems Group in the School of Physics. He uses methods from statistics and physics to quantify and explain the dynamics of complex systems. His research has a neuroscience focus, which ultimately aims to understand complex patterns of brain structure and function in terms of physical mechanisms of information processing.

Ben completed a B.Sc. (Adv) (Hons) at The University of Sydney in 2007, and an M.Sc. (Physics) in 2008 on the topic of physiologically-based modeling of sleep-wake dynamics. He then graduated with a DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2012 on time-series analysis and machine learning. He worked as an NHMRC early career researcher at Monash University from 2013-2017 on topics in computational neuroscience involving patterns of brain connectivity and gene expression, and has been in the School of Physics at The Unversity of Sydney since November 2017.