Wulfram Gerstner | |
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Born | 1963 (age 61–62) |
Citizenship | German Swiss |
Awards | Valentino Braitenberg Award for Computational Neuroscience 2018 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Tübingen Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Neuroscience |
Sub-discipline | Computational neuroscience |
Institutions | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) |
Main interests | Dynamic models neural activity Spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) |
Website | https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lcn/ |
Wulfram Gerstner (born 1963 in Heilbronn) is a German and Swiss computational neuroscientist. His research focuses on neural spiking patterns in neural networks, and their connection to learning, spatial representation and navigation.[1] Since 2006 Gerstner has been a full professor of Computer Science and Life Sciences at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he also serves as a Director of the Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience.[2]