Dr. Marc-Oliver Gewaltig

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Unpublished articles

• Models of visual cortex
• Tomaso Poggio, Thomas Serre

Author

• NEST (NEural Simulation Tool)
• (2007) Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, Markus Diesmann

Articles sponsored or reviewed

• Model sharing in computational neuroscience
• (2007) Thomas M. Morse

• Modular models of brain function
• (2007) Michael A Arbib

• Models of thalamocortical system
• (2007) Richard H. Granger, Robert A. Hearn

• Models of basal ganglia
• (2007) Jim Houk

• Synfire chains
• (2009) Moshe Abeles

• Models of epilepsy
• (2009) Ghanim Ullah, Steven J. Schiff

• GENESIS (simulation environment)
• (2007) James M. Bower, David Beeman

• Neuron simulation environment
• (2007) Ted Carnevale

• Models of hippocampus
• (2011) Michael E. Hasselmo

Recognized contributor

• Thalamocortical oscillations
• (2006) Maxim Bazhenov, Igor Timofeev

• Models of consciousness
• (2007) Anil Seth

• Models of hypothalamus
• (2006) Richard Bertram, Joel Tabak, Natalia Toporikova

• High-conductance state
• (2007) Alain Destexhe

• Neuronal avalanche
• (2007) John M. Beggs

• Tremor
• (2007) Leonid L. Rubchinsky, Alexey S. Kuznetsov, Vicki L. Wheelock MD, Karen A. Sigvardt

• Models of emotion
• (2007) Jean-Marc Fellous

• Synchronization
• (2007) Arkady Pikovsky, Michael Rosenblum

• Cell assemblies
• (2011) Moshe Abeles

• Models of synaptic plasticity
• (2007) Harel Z. Shouval

• Binding by synchrony
• (2007) Wolf Singer

• Computational models of classical conditioning
• (2008) Nestor A. Schmajuk

• Self-organization of brain function
• (2008) Hermann Haken

• Holonomic brain theory
• (2007) Karl Pribram

• Brain
• (2007) Valentino Braitenberg

• Sparse coding
• (2008) Peter Foldiak, Dominik Endres

• Models of mirror system
• (2007) Erhan Oztop

• Neural inhibition
• (2007) Peter Jonas, Gyorgy Buzsaki

Marc-Oliver Gewaltig

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Research Topics

• Theory of visual cortical processing, simulation technology for large structured neuronal systems, computational neuroscience
• Techniques: Non-linear dynamics, statistical physics, applied computer science, parallel scientific computing

Academic Background

• 1988 - 1993: Studies in Physics and Computer Science, University of Bochum (D)
• 1991: Studies in Physics and Cognitive Science, University of Sussex (UK)
• 1993: MSc in Physics (Bochum, D)
• 1994 - 1996: PhD studies, Inst. for Neuroinformatics (W. von Seelen), University of Bochum (D)
• 1997 - 1999: PhD studies, Neurobiology & Biophysics (A. Aertsen), University of Freiburg (D)
• 1999: PhD in Physics, Thesis: Evolution of synchronous spike volleys in cortical networks (Reviewers: C. von der Malsburg, W. von Seelen, University of Bochum)

Research Positions

• 1994 - 1996: Research Assistant, Institute for Neuroinformatics (W. von Seelen), University of Bochum (D)
• 1995: Scientific stay Weizmann Institute of Science (IL) (A. Aertsen)
• 1996 - 1998: Research Assistant, Neurobiology & Biophysics (A. Aertsen), Inst. Biology III, University of Freiburg (D)
• 1998 - 2002: Senior scientist and project leader, Future Technology Research (Prof. E. Körner) Honda R&D Europe (Deutschland) GmbH, Offenbach (D)
• 2003 - 2011: Principal Scientist and project leader, Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Offenbach (D)
• 2011 - present: Project Manager at the Blue Brain Project (EPFL)
• 2001 - present: Founding member and coordinator of the NEST Initiative, the consortium behind the neural simulation tool NEST.