Dr Tim Viney

Dr Viney is a Career Development Fellow at the Department of Pharmacology. He is a neuroscientist and carried out his PhD at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel in the laboratory of Dr Botond Roska, where he investigated neural circuits of the mammalian retina. In 2010 he moved to Oxford and joined the group of Prof Peter Somogyi at the MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit. His research focused on defining the spatial and temporal specialisations of different kinds of nerve cells in the hippocampus that contribute to memory processes. Next, as an MRC Investigator Scientist in the Department of Pharmacology, Oxford, he investigated how brain rhythms in the cerebral cortex are controlled by 'subcortical' brain areas. In 2020 he began a new research programme on the biological roles of the thalamus and connected brain regions in rodents and humans that are critical for the encoding and recall of memories. Dr Viney is also interested in how Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases affect these distributed memory circuits.