Dr. Stefano Fusi

Biography

Stefano Fusi is a Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University, specifically within the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. He graduated in 1992 from Sapienza University of Rome with a degree in physics and held a research position at the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Rome. In 1999, he received his Ph.D. in physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and subsequently moved to the University of Bern in Switzerland for postdoctoral research. He was also a visiting postdoctoral fellow at Brandeis University. In 2005, he was awarded a professorial fellowship by the Swiss National Science Foundation, which led to his appointment as an Assistant Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ). In 2009, Fusi joined the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University as an Associate Professor. His research focuses on computational modeling and theoretical analysis of complex neural circuits, particularly in understanding the roles of biological complexity and diversity within the nervous system. He is also interested in the development of learning devices that utilize neuromorphic hardware, collaborating with experimental neuroscientists and engineers at institutions such as MIT and Stanford.

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