Alberto Arturo Vergani, PhD - Home Page
Computational Neuroscientist
Modeling, simulations, algorithms and data-analysis for brain's multi-scale spatio-temporal features
Past positions
- Postdoctoral Researcher at NeOpto Lab (headed by Prof. Frederic Chavane)
Aix-Marseille University, Institut de Neuroscience de la Timone, Marseille, France
Period: April 2020 - September 2021
Main project: Visual computations using Spatio-temporal Diffusion Kernels and Traveling Waves
Supervisor: Prof. Laurent Perrinet
Fund: fellowship from French ANR Horizontal-V1
Research topics:
- Primary visual cortex modeling and simulations
- Sensory-evoked traveling waves and dynamic neuronal association fields
- Optical imaging, psychophysics and neural basis of Gestalt principles
- Mean-Field Models, Point-Neuron Models and Predictive coding
Main research interests and outputs
- Scientific Computing and Computational Intelligence
- Theoretical Neuroscience and Mathematical Psychology
- Neurophysiology and Neuroimaging
- Scientific Visualization and Science Art
- Relations between Theory of Cognition and Theory of Computation
- Lists of publications and presentations
Achievements
- 2021 2nd ranked at Brain and Art Prize, NeuroMarseille, with Neural Turing Patterns artwork
- 2021-2023 Postdoctoral fellowship at SSSP (The BioRobotics Institute, CNL) by PREVIEW project
- 2020-2021 Postdoctoral fellowship at INT Marseille (FR) by French ANR Horizontal-V1
- 2019-2020 Postdoctoral fellowship at Middlesex University (UK) by The Human Brain Project (HBP)
- 2018 Best Conference Paper with Taylor and Francis prize at CMBBE2018
- 2016 - 2018 Travel Grants by The Human Brain Project (HBP)
- 2014 - 2016 Travel Grants by Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE)
- 2015 - 2018 PhD Fellowship at University of Insubria (IT)
- 2012 Civil recognition by the Major of Cairate, Italy
Latest and future activities
- 2022, Jun 13-15, EBRAINS Workshop on Brain Activity across Scales and Species
- 2022, May 02nd, EITN Workshop on "Personalised brain models"
- 2022, April 19th, EITN Workshop on "Computational basis of intelligence and its social implications"
- 2022, April 11th, EITN Symposium on "From Cortical Microcircuits to Consciousness" (CORTICON)
- 2022, March 29th - April 1st, NICE (9th Annual Neuro-Inspired Computational Elements)
- 2022, March 8th-9th, Teaching Master class on Brain Simulations and Balance Network theory, SSSA, Pisa
- 2022, January 19th, Teaching PhD class on Computational Neurosciene Tutorial, SSSA, Pisa
- 2021, Dec 17, Workshop on TVB EBRAINS Integrated Workflows
- 2021, Dec 15-16, CINECA course on HPC and Quantum Computing
- 2021, Dec 9-10, EBRAINS Workshop on Medical Data Sharing in Clinical Neurosciences
- 2021, Dec 2, EBRAINS course on Responsible Research and Innovation
- 2021, Nov 29th, Virtual EEGLAB Workshop Pacific/Asia
- 2021, Nov 24th, Seminar on Research Cases of Unsupervised Learning in Neuroscience, Insubria University
- 2021, Nov 18th, Science and technology for cultural heritage, A Nature Italy event
- 2021, Oct 5, 12th Fenix Infrastructure Webinar: EBRAINS services deployed on ICEI services
- 2021, Sept 29-1, Workshop on model testing and model fitting, EITN
- 2021, Sept 27, Seminar on Waves computations in a general model of V1, NeOpto team, INT, Marseille
- 2021, Sept 21-23, Poster presentation at Bernstein Conference 2021
- 2021, Sept 06-17, Summer School of Marseille Imaging Institute
- 2021, Aug 27-29, Conference on Neurotrophic Factors and Neurodegenerative Disorders
- 2021, Aug 25-27, FENS regional meeting
- 2021, July 05-07, School on Physiology and Biophysics, University of Pavia
- 2021, July 01-02, Glial cells course, XV European Meeting on Glial Cells
- 2021, June 15, Brain and Art competition: online the artwork Neural Turing Patterns
- 2021, June 14-16, Noise as signal: Educational symposium on cerebral hemodynamics in fMRI
- 2021, June 10, Computational Neuroscience with EBRAINS, EITN
- 2021, May 26-27, HBP Young Researchers Event: EBRAINS for next-generation brain medicine
- 2021, May 19-21, Poster presentation at NeuroFrance, Conference of Société des Neurosciences
- 2021, May 5-6, Workshop on Energy and entropy concepts to characterize and understand brain activity, EITN
- 2021, April 23, Teaching PhD class on Computational Neuroscience, Aix-Marseille University
- 2021, March 17-20, Poster presentation at NICE (Neuro-Inspired Computational Elements) workshop
- 2021, March 10, Workshop on distributed representations in the macaque brain, EITN
- 2021, January 14, Talk at VIII Human Brain Project Tea and Slides Session
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