Mark Cunningham is the Ellen Mayston Bates Professor of Neurophysiology of Epilepsy at Trinity College Dublin and the Head of the Discipline of Physiology in the School of Medicine
He leads a research group that uses neurophysiological techniques to study the mechanisms by which neuronal microcircuits generate organised electrical activity in the brain. He has a particular interest in understanding how pathological electrical activity is generated by the epileptic brain and how this can help develop better treatments for epilepsy.
He is a funded investigator at the FutureNeuro SFI Research Centre in Dublin. Working with the FutureNeuro team and neurosurgeons at Beaumont Hospital he has established electrophysiological recordings in human epileptic brain slices for the first time in Ireland.
He was a member of the Wellcome Trust Biomedical Resource and Technology Development Committee (2018-2021) and the Scientific Advisory Committee at Epilepsy Research UK (2014-2018). He is a fellow of the Centre for the Advancement of Sustainable Medical Innovation (CASMI).
