Prof. Jeanette Hällgren Kotaleski

The main focus of Jeanette Hällgren Kotaleski’s research is the use of modeling and simulations to understand the neural mechanisms underlying information processing and learning in the brain. The research spans multiple biological scales, from large-scale simulations of cellular-level neural networks down to kinetic models—systems biology approaches—of molecular and cellular processes. Interdisciplinary collaborations with experimental laboratories, both nationally and internationally, have been and continue to be essential to this work. Jeanette Hällgren Kotaleski has extensive experience in training cross-disciplinary students and postdoctoral researchers, in addition to collaborating closely with experimentalists. Her current research group includes doctoral students and postdocs/senior researchers divided between CST/EECS at KTH and the Department of Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet (KI). In parallel, she works closely with the International Neuroinformatics Coordination Facility, promoting FAIR principles within the neuroscience community. At present, she is also coordinating the establishment of EBRAINS-Sweden, part of EBRAINS—the research infrastructure for brain science that emerged from the EU’s Human Brain Project (HBP). At KTH, she serves as one of the principal investigators of collaborative projects within the SeRC and Digital Futures frameworks.