Henry Markram
Henry Markram is a full professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He was born in the Kalahari desert in South Africa in 1962, finished school at Kearsney College (1980), studied medicine and neuroscience at Cape Town University (1988), obtained a PhD in neuroscience at the Weizmann Institute (1991), completed postdoctoral work as a Fullbright Scholar at the NIH (1992) and as a Minerva Fellow at the Max-Planck (1994). He started his lab at the Weizmann in 1995, spent a year sabbatical research at University of California San Fransisco (2000), moved to the EPFL to found and direct the Brain Mind Institute (2002) and founded and currently directs the Blue Brain Project (since 2005) at the EPF aimed at developing the tools and strategies required to systematically reconstruct and eventually simulate the human brain. He founded the Human Brain Project (HBP), which has evolved into the European brain initiative, a program to develop IT infrastructures to catalyze integration of data and knowledge on brain. Is a co-founder of Frontiers.
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