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Friedemann Zenke, PhD

Junior Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute

Assistant Professor, University of Basel

www.zenkelab.org

Assistant professor in computational neuroscience at the FMI in Basel, Switzerland (bio). Interested in neural networks, learning, and plasticity. Running a small group of talented young scientists (zenkelab.org, publications). Author of Auryn, the spiking neural network simulator. Organizes the SNUFA workshops with Dan Goodman on spiking networks.

Research interests

Neural Networks
Computational Neuroscience
Machine Learning
Dynamical Systems

Positions

University of Basel

Assistant Professor

2022 - present

Friedrich Miescher Institute

Junior Group Leader

2019 - present

University of Oxford

Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow with Tim Vogels

2017 - 2019

Stanford

Post-doc with Surya Ganguli

2015 - 2017

EPFL

PhD with Wulfram Gerstner

2009 - 2014

2025-09-28: Seattle — Lake Conference, Seattle.
2025-06-18: UCL — Neural Dynamics Workshop, UCL, London.
2025-03-27: LMU — Spiking Neural Networks Workshop, LMU, Munich.
2025-02-19: Champalimaud — Center For the Unknown, Lisbon.
2025-02-14: Bench2Bedside — Neuroscience From Bench-to-Bedside Symposium, University of Basel.
2024-11-20: Gatsby — Computational Neuroscience Unit, London.
2024-11-13: VVTNS — van Vreeswijk Theoretical Neuroscience Seminar, Online.
2024-10-28: BCN — Ringvorlesung: Wege zur Erforschung des Gehirns, Freiburg, Germany.
2024-10-02: mltml24 — Rovinj Symposium on MLT&TML, Rovinj, Croatia
2024-09-29: Bernstein — Workshop talk, Understanding Local Third Factors in Synaptic Plasticity: Mechanisms and Functional Implications, Bernstein Conference, Frankfurt, Germany.
2024-07-06: KISN — Theories of neural computation in the era or large-scale recordings, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Trondheim, Norway.
2024-05-23: CERCO — Centre de Recherche Cerveau & Cognition, Toulouse, France
2024-04-27: THN Podcast — Theoretical Neuroscience Podcast with Gaute Einevoll.
2024-04-23: NICE2024 — NICE 2024, La Jolla, USA.
2024-01-19: HiPEAC — Talk at NEUROCOMS workshop, HiPEAC, Munich, Germany.
2023-12-08: INI — Talk at INI Colloquium, Institute for Neuroinformatics, Uni/ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
2023-11-29: ETH — Guest lecture in the course “Learning in Deep Artificial and Biological Neuronal Networks,” ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
2023-07-04: TEX2023 — Talk at ‘Efficient coding and processing for perception and action’ workshop, SISSA, Trieste, Italy.
2023-06-27: ISTA — Neuro Data Talk, IST Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria.
2023-06-14: EPFL — Lecture in EPFL doctoral class on Neurophysics, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2023-05-04: ECN — Talk in seminar series ‘Spikes - Bug or Feature?’ - Einstein Center for Neurosciences, Berlin, Germany.
2023-04-25: Imperial College — NR Talk, Imperial College, London, UK.
2023-03-21: Columbia — Theory Seminar, Columbia University, New York, USA.

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