Miura’s research interests focused on developing mathematical models in neuroscience for cell dynamics.
He works with biologists to help them understand how and why a type of depressed brain activity induced in animals spreads as a slow, pathological wave.
Robert, along with collaborator Henry Tuckwell, formulated one of the first models of spreading depression using the continuum approach.
In recent years, he has expanded on this work in order to understand not just ion, but also energy homeostasis in the brain.
Miura spent 26 years at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, as a professor of mathematics.