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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

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.
2023-03-16: Flatiron — CCN seminar, Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation, New York, USA.
2023-03-13: CoSyNe — Talk at the ‘Making Plasticity Work’ workshop, Mont Tremblant, Canada.
2023-03-06: uOttawa — Talk about Latent Predictive Learning at University of Ottawa, Canada.
2022-12-13: CWI — Talk at the Symposium on Learning Algorithms for Spiking Neural Networks at CWI, Amsterdam.
2022-11-24: DZNE — Talk at the DZNE, Bonn, Germany.

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