Nikolas Perentos
Dr Nikolas Perentos is an Assistant Professor at the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Nicosia.
Dr Perentos (BEng, PhD, RMIT University, Australia) has substantial experience in experimental neuroscience across multiple species, including humans, sheep, and rodents. He has conducted human volunteer studies to investigate the potential influence of non-ionising radiofrequency exposures onto human resting brain activity. Thereafter he has focused on experimental neuroscience using animal models to investigate basic brain processes as they relate to memory, sleep, and neurodegeneration. While at the University of Cambridge he was instrumental in pioneering the use of electrophysiological techniques for investigation of brain activity in freely moving sheep. The methods he developed were later applied in an ovine model of Huntington’s disease. Furthermore, Dr Perentos has substantial experience with standard laboratory models, such as mice, which he gained at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany where he investigated mechanisms of emotional memory consolidation. His current research focuses on establishing in vivo electrophysiological techniques as one of the staples of experimental neuroscience in Cyprus in both standard laboratory animals as well as further advancing these techniques in large animal models and employing them in questions that related to memory and learning.