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Wulfram Gerstner is the Director of the Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). His research focuses on computational neuroscience, specifically modeling spiking neurons, spike-timing dependent plasticity, neuronal coding, and neural dynamics of single neurons and populations. He is involved in exploring the link between biologically plausible learning rules and the behavioral manifestations of learning. Gerstner teaches courses tailored for physicists, computer scientists, mathematicians, and life scientists at EPFL. He has an extensive academic background, having studied physics at the University of Tübingen and Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, followed by a PhD in theoretical physics at the Technical University of Munich. Gerstner joined EPFL in 1996, initially as an assistant professor, and became an associate professor in 2001 and a full professor with a double appointment in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences and the School of Life Sciences in 2006. He has been an invited speaker at numerous international conferences and workshops and served on the editorial boards of various journals in the field.
Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience, EPFL • Lausanne, Switzerland
Leading research and academic initiatives in computational neuroscience, focusing on models of spiking neurons and learning dynamics.
EPFL • Lausanne, Switzerland
Transitioned from assistant to associate professorship, contributing to research and teaching in computational neuroscience.
EPFL • Lausanne, Switzerland
Full professor with a dual appointment in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences and the School of Life Sciences.
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