Teaching

We are excited by EPFL’s Computational Thinking agenda and our teaching is focussed on bringing computational thinking into neuroscience.

Courses

Scientific project design in integrative neurosciences (BIO493)

This course is a project-based learning class, which provides a forum for students to engage themselves in learning how to design a scientific project that bridges scales and allows following the causal chain from one scale to the next. I am teaching this course together with my experimental neuroscience colleague, Prof. Carl Petersen from the Brain Mind Institute.

In silico neuroscience (BIOENG450)

‘In silico Neuroscience’ introduces students to a synthesis of modern neuroscience and state-of-the-art data management, modelling and computing technologies with a focus on the biophysical level. I am teaching this course together with my colleague Dr. Armando Romani from the Blue Brain Project.

MOOC ‘Simulation Neuroscience: reconstruction of a single neuron’

This MOOC teaches the science of and skills for building biophysically detailed neuron models. It combines lectures with online exercise providing access to modern IT infrastructures for neuroscience.