About me
I am a Lecturer at the Department of Mathematics of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
My research focusses on developing and validating mathematical models that capture the intricate and multiscale dynamics of the brain: from single neurons to neural masses and the whole brain.
Interests
- Computational neuroscience
- Mesoscale brain modeling
- Nonlinear and stochastic dynamics
- Synchronization
- Complex systems
Previous positions
From 2021 to 2022 I worked as a postdoc researcher at the Dynamical Systems Biology Lab from Universitat Pompeu Fabra as part of the Neurotwin consortium.
From 2019 to 2021 I worked as a postdoc researcher at the Physics Department of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya with Romualdo Pastor-Satorras.
From 2015 to 2019 I developed my PhD research at University of Aberdeen and University of Florence as part of the COSMOS project. In 2019 I successfully defended my thesis “Collective behavior in complex oscillatory systems”, supervised by Antonio Politi and Roberto Livi.
Publications
- P. Clusella and E. Montbrió Exact low-dimensional description for fast neural oscillations with low firing rates, Phys. Rev. E 109, 014229 (2024) link pdf
- (preprint) P. Clusella, L. Manubens-Gil, J. Garcia-Ojalvo, and M. Dierssen Modeling the impact of neuromorphological alterations in Down syndrome on fast neural oscillations bioRxiv 2024.01.13.575481 link pdf
- P. Clusella, G. Deco, M. L. Kringelbach, G. Ruffini, and J. Garcia-Ojalvo Complex spatiotemporal oscillations emerge from transverse instabilities in large-scale brain networks, PLOS Computational Biology 19(4) (2023) link pdf
- P. Clusella, E. Köksal-Ersöz, J. Garcia-Ojalvo and G. Ruffini Comparison between an exact and a heuristic neural mass model with second order synapses, Biol. Cybern. (2022) link pdf
- P. Clusella, B. Pietras, and E. Montbrió Kuramoto model for populations of quadratic integrate-and-fire neurons with chemical and electrical coupling, Chaos 32 013105 (2022) link pdf
- P. Clusella and R. Pastor-Satorras Phase transitions on a class of generalized Vicsek-like models of collective motion, Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 31 043116 (2021) link pdf
- P. Clusella, M. C. Miguel, and R. Pastor-Satorras Amplitude death and restoration in networks of oscillators with random-walk diffusion, Commun. Phys. 4 13 (2021) link pdf
- P. Clusella and A. Politi Irregular collective dynamics in a Kuramoto-Daido system, J. Phys. Complex. 2 014002 (2021) link pdf
- P. Clusella and A. Politi Between phase and amplitude oscillators, Phys. Rev. E 99, 062201 (2019) link pdf
- G. Cencetti, P. Clusella, and D. Fanelli Pattern invariance for reaction-diffusion systems on complex networks, Sci. Rep. 8 16226 (2018) link pdf
- P. Clusella and A. Politi Noise-induced stabilization of collective dynamics, Phys. Rev. E 95 062221 (2017) link pdf
- P. Clusella, P. Grassberger, F. J. Perez-Reche, and A. Politi Immunization and targeted destruction of networks using explosive percolation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117 208301 (2016) link pdf
- P. Clusella, A. Politi, and M. Rosenblum A minimal model of self-consistent partial synchrony, New J. Phys. 18 093037 (2016) link pdf