Dr Marcus T. Wilson

Senior Lecturer
Qualifications: BA(Hons) Cambridge, PhD Bristol, PGCert(Tertiary Teaching) Waikato, MInstP CPhys, MNZIP
Personal Website: http://sci.waikato.ac.nz/physicsstop
About Marcus
I am a theoretical and experimental physicist working in the School of Science in the Faculty of Science and Engineering. I teach in the Applied Physics Minor and Science Communication.
My research is focused on biophysics, in particular the electrical interactions of the brain. I have developed numerical models of the interactions between populations of neurons and how they are affected by applied electromagnetic fields, such as in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. I welcome applications from excellent PhD students who are capable in theoretical and/or experimental physics or numerical modelling who would like to explore this exciting area - no knowledge of biology required!
Papers Taught
Research Interests
Current research interests include measurement and modelling of the electrical behaviour of the brain, with a particular interest in neural field models and transcranial magnetic stimulation, numerical modelling more generally, and the practice of teaching physics and engineering
Recent Publications
Khokhar, F. A., Voss, L. J., Alistair Steyn-Ross, D., & Wilson, M. T. (2021). Design and demonstration in vitro of a mouse-specific Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation coil. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. doi:10.1109/TMAG.2021.3077976
Sorkhabi, M. M., Wendt, K., Wilson, M. T., & Denison, T. (2021). Numerical modelling of plasticity induced by quadri-pulse stimulation. IEEE Access, 1. doi:10.1109/access.2021.3057829 Open Access version: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/14111
Wilson, M. T., Moezzi, B., & Rogasch, N. C. (2021). Modeling motor-evoked potentials from neural field simulations of transcranial magnetic stimulation. Clinical Neurophysiology, 132(2), 412-428. doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2020.10.032
Wilson, M. T., Farrow, V., Pyne, C., & Scott, J. (2021). Charge capacity characteristics of a Lithium Nickel-Cobalt-Aluminum Oxide battery show fractional-derivative behavior. arXiv. Retrieved from http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03883v1
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Keywords
Electronics; Medical Physics; Physics; Science; Teaching and Learning; Tertiary Education
biophysics
electromagnetics
Contact Details
Email: [email protected]Room: EF.3.04
Phone: +64 7 838 4834