I am a researcher at the Inria Centre at Université Côte d'Azur in the team Cronos.

My current research is axed on descriptions and analysis of neural networks from the point of view of dynamical systems. My goal is to develop numerical / theoretical tools that allow an efficient study of these systems to draw predictions to be tested in experiments in neurobiology.

— Romain Veltz

More specifically, I am interested in the following fields (not in a particular order):

Applications in (theoretical) neurosciences

• Tractography

• Whole brain models

• Neural plasticity (synaptic...)

• Spiking neural networks and their mean field

• Signal integration in dendritic spines / synapses

• Modelling of cortical areas

Dynamical Systems / Probability Theory

• Koopman formalism

• Hyperbolic PDEs

• Nonlocal transport equations

• Pattern formation

• Jump processes / Point processes, stochastic dynamics

• Harris recurrence

• Delayed systems

Research initiatives

Ongoing

• ANR spinPAIN-PATH. Period: 2020-2025. Coordinator: E. Deval (IPMC).

Past

• Projet NeuroKoopman - Neuromod GP. Coordinator: Patricia Reynaud-Bouret (UniCA).

• ANR ChaMaNe. Period: 2020-2025. Coordinator: D. Salort (Sorbonne Université).

• ComputeABrain funded by UniCA. Period: 2020-2023. Coordinator: H. Marie (IPMC)

• HBP SGA3 program. Period: 2020-2023. Coordinator: R. Veltz

Events / Committees / responsabilities

• I am science outreach officer (chargé de médiation scientique) at the Inria Centre of Université Côte d’Azur since 2025.

• I am a member of the International Society for Tractography IST.

• I was responsible for projects of the (Human Brain Project) HBP SGA3 program, ended in October 2023.

• I am a member of the scientific committee of WAVECOMPLEXITY.

• I am member of the Editorial Board of the journal Mathematical Neurosciences and Applications.

• I am a member of Neuromod Institute of Université Côte d’Azur which aims at promoting modeling as an approach for integrating brain mechanisms and cognitive functions.

• I was a member of the “Advisory board” of the conference ICMNS (International conference on mathematical neurosciences) from 2016 to 2024. I serve as a reviewer for the submissions. I was a member of the “Scientific Committee” of the conference in 2024.

• I organized the second ICMNS conference on mathematical neurosciences in June 2016.

Quotes

"There never have been and never will be any 'applied sciences', there are only applications of sciences" – (Pasteur)

"I have never heard of such a mathematician, he is actually a physicist" – (Landau on Poincaré)