Schräge Slider StartseiteSchräge Slider Startseite

Get to know the Bernstein Network!

Get to know the Bernstein Network!

Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience

Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience

moremore
Schräge Slider StartseiteSchräge Slider Startseite

Search and find our scientists now!

Search and find scientists now!

Find a Scientist

Find a Scientist

more
Schräge Slider StartseiteSchräge Slider Startseite

Bernstein Conference 2026

Bernstein Conference 2025

Bernstein Conference

Bernstein Conference

more

Welcome

The Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience connects experimental and theoretical scientists. It comprises more than 200 research groups and 450 individual scientists from all over the world who combine experimental neuroscientific approaches with theoretical models and computer simulations.

The Bernstein Network was launched in 2004 through a major funding initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) which aimed at advancing the transfer of theoretical knowledge to clinical and technical applications. The network is named after the German physiologist and biophysicist Julius Bernstein (1839-1917).

News

Freiburg, Germany June 24, 2026

Xiao-Jing Wang receives the 2026 Valentin Braitenberg Award for Computational Neuroscience

Xiao-Jing Wang receives this year’s Valentin Braitenberg Award for his “enormous contributions across many subfields, from biophysics to computational psychiatry” (the award committee). The award ceremony will take place during the Bernstein Conference on September 29, 2026, in Frankfurt am Main.

Constance, Germany June 25, 2026

Surroundings influence developing biology of the eye

In a virtual reality study involving zebrafish, researchers from the University of Konstanz and King’s College London have discovered that the development of the eye is influenced by what the fish see during the early stages of life – and this, in turn, alters their behaviour.

Hamburg, Germany June 23, 2026

UKE neuroscience projects awarded ERC Advanced Grants

Two researchers at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) have once again been awarded prestigious ERC Advanced Grants by the European Research Council (ERC). The funded projects focus on brain research and will receive more than €2.4 million for UKE over the next five years. With these latest awards, UKE has now secured a total of 40 ERC Grants.

Munich, Germany June 22, 2026

Convergent evolution of mechanisms for spatial navigation

Researchers from the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Munich, LMU, and Cornell University reveal that zebrafish and fruit flies share the same internal compass mechanism, despite being separated by more than 550 million years of evolution.

Events

Bernstein Conference

Abstract Submission

Satellite Workshops Program

Register Now

Calls

Fellowship Sponsorship: Mechanistic theories of neural computation or learning

The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour (SWC) and the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit (Gatsby Unit) invite expressions of interest from early career researchers who wish to be sponsored for external career fellowships to establish an independent research group in mechanistic theories of neural computation or learning. The successful candidate will establish an independent computational research programme, supported by an external fellowship and hosted jointly at SWC and Gatsby Unit, that develops models and theories linking the activity of neural circuits to the behavioural processes that underpin perception, cognition, planning, motor control and/or learning.

Deadline: 16.07.2026

Else Kröner Exzellenzstipendien 2025

Die Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung möchte herausragend in Klinik und Forschung qualifizierte Ärztinnen und Ärzte unterstützen, durch eine zweijährige Freistellung von klinischen Aufgaben ein besonders erfolgversprechendes und für sie profilbildendes medizinisches Forschungsvorhaben signifikant weiterzubringen. Damit soll vor allem Oberärztinnen und Oberärzten die Qualifizierung für die Berufung auf eine Professur im Sinne eines Clinician Scientist ermöglicht werden.
Dazu schreibt die Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung auf dem gesamten Gebiet der Medizin bis zu sechs Individualstipendien mit einer Laufzeit von zwei Jahren für Ärztinnen und Ärzte nach Abschluss der Weiterbildung zum Facharzt aus. Das Stipendium ist mit insgesamt 350.000 € dotiert und dient primär der Finanzierung der eigenen Stelle (Brutto-Jahresgehalt) während der Freistellung.

Deadline: 31.07.2026

ERC Advanced Grant

Are you an established, leading principal investigator who wants long-term funding to pursue a ground-breaking, ambitious project? The ERC Advanced Grant could be for you.

Deadline: 27.08.2026