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Friedemann Zenke, PhD
Senior Group Leader,  Friedrich Miescher Institute
Assistant Professor,  University of Basel
       

Assistant professor in computational neuroscience at the FMI in Basel, Switzerland (bio). Interested in neural networks, learning, and plasticity. Running a group of talented young scientists (zenkelab.org/team). Interested in understanding the principles of biological intelligence and its efficiency (publications).

Research interests

  • World models
  • Learning circuit mechanisms
  • Spiking neural networks
  • Continual learning

Positions

Friedrich Miescher Institute
Senior Group Leader
2026 - present
University of Basel
Assistant Professor
2022 - present
Friedrich Miescher Institute
Junior Group Leader
2019 - 2026
University of Oxford
Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow with Tim Vogels
2017 - 2019
Stanford
Post-doc with Surya Ganguli
2015 - 2017
EPFL
PhD with Wulfram Gerstner
2009 - 2014