Henry Markram | |
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Born | South Africa | 28 March 1962
Nationality | South African |
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Known for | Blue Brain Project Human Brain Project Spike-timing-dependent plasticity |
Awards | Fulbright Scholar |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Neuroscience |
Institutions | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
Thesis | Acetylcholine interacts with the NMDA receptor through the phosphoinositide pathway (1991) |
Doctoral advisor | Menahem Segal[citation needed] |
Website | people |
Henry John Markram (born 28 March 1962[1]) is a South African-born Israeli neuroscientist, professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and director of the Blue Brain Project and founder of the Human Brain Project.