Interviews and portraits with and of Bernstein members. Get closer to computational neuroscience through the personal perspectives of our scientists.
Diving into new scientific fields with machine learning
Jakob Macke, professor of machine learning in science, spoke with us about the similarities and differences between computational neuroscience and machine learning - and the fun of diving into different scientific fields.
The Berlin Institute for Foundations of Learning and Data BIFOLD. New beacon of German AI research
Klaus-Robert Müller is one of the directors of the new Berlin Institute for Foundations of Learning and Data, BIFOLD for short. Read the exclusive interview here.
On the Road to Transparent AI
Moritz Helias from Forschungszentrum Jülich is working with an interdisciplinary team to shed more light on the "black box" of AI. In an interview, he explains exactly what his project will be about.
Artificial Neurons – Research as Medial Artwork
Hermann Cuntz and Marvin Weigand from the Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience (ESI) and the Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies (FIAS) had an exhibit at the Centre Pompidou. In this interview, they tell about how this chance arose and what their exhibit is about.
Chief goal: cracking the neural code
Tatjana Tchumatchenko compares modern-day brain research to astronomy at Einstein’s times. Her chief goal is to crack the neural code.
Young leader with interdisciplinary aspirations
In 2015, Marion Silies went from Stanford to Göttingen on an Emmy Noether scholarship. The Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen was a big pull factor for her decision. Today, she is professor for neurobiology at the University of Mainz.
Julijana Gjorgjieva. Mentor within the SMARTSTART Programm
A Bernstein Sloan-Swartz scholarship brought Julijana Gjorgjieva from the USA to Germany in 2015. Today, she is group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research and actively committed to the training of the "next generation in computational neuroscience".
Sofja Kovalevskaja Award 2017 for Anna Levina
Anna Levina, member of the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Tübingen, received the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award 2017, one of the most prestigious and most highly endowed research awards in Germany.
Great (course) prospects for young researchers in computational neuroscience
Sonja Grün is co-initiator of the Advanced Neural Data Analysis Course ANDA. In this interview she grants a look behind the scenes of the course.