Current and past members
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Aleksandra Teska Upcoming PhD student | Joseph Tharayil Master student (2020) | Francesco Cremonesi Phd (2019) |
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Bruno Magalhaes PhD (2019) | Dace Stiebrina Administration |
Collaborating Blue Brain Experts
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James King BBP, Section Manager High Performance Computing | Dr. Judit Planas BBP, Section Manager Scientific Visualization  |
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Pramod Kumbhar BBP, HPC Architect | Dr. Omar Awile BBP, HPC Researcher |
Lab Head
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Felix Schürmann Adjunct Professor Office: B1 4 282.040 | Dace Stiebrina Administration Office: B1 3 270.040 |
Felix Schürmann is adjunct professor at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) with his group on neuroscience and computing, affiliated with the Brain Mind Institute, and co-director of the Blue Brain Project. He studied physics at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, supported by the German National Academic Foundation. Later, as a Fulbright Scholar, he obtained his Master’s degree in Physics from SUNY at Buffalo, USA, on simulating quantum computers. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, under the supervision of the late Karlheinz Meier. For his thesis he co-designed an efficient implementation of a neural network in hardware.
