Maurizio De Pittà

Scientist, Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada

External Scientific Member, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Bilbao, Spain

Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Professor, Doctoral Program in Neurosciences, University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain

Krembil Research Institute

4KD509-60 Leonard Avenue

Toronto, ON M5T 0S8, Canada

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Recent publications:

Bonifazi et al., A nonlinear meccano for Alzheimer's emergence by amyloid β-mediated glutamatergic hyperactivity. Neurobiology of Disease, 2024:106473.

Moradi et al., Distinctive biophysical features of human cell-types: insights from studies of neurosurgically resected brain tissue, Frontiers Synaptic Neuroscience, 2023:15:1250834.

De Pittà & Brunel, Multiple forms of working memory emerge from synapse–astrocyte interactions in a neuron–glia network model. PNAS, 2022:119 (43) e2207912119.

About me

I am the principal investigator of the Neuron-Glial Interactions Lab (NGILab) at the Krembil Research Institute (Toronto, Canada), and an external scientific member at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM) in Bilbao (Spain). My expertise is on neuron-glial interactions in the healthy and diseased brain. I use multi-disciplinary approaches at the cross-roads of Physics and Computer Science, and collaborate with biologists, engineers and medical doctors, to harness the complexity of neuron-glial signaling, from the subcellular realm to Systems' levels. I am also principal investigator of the ASTROTECH Consortium, member of the CliSyNe Network, and of the Board of Directors of the Organization of Computational Neurosciences.