Walter Senn

Prof. Dr. Walter Senn is a computational neuroscientist recognized for his models on cortical computation that connect biological and artificial intelligence. He has a PhD in Mathematics from University of Bern and Freiburg i.Br., and was for research stays at Moscow Lomonossov University (with Prof. Y. Sinai), at the NIH and NYU (with Prof. Rinzel) and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (with I. Segev). Since 2006 he is Full Professor for Computational Neuroscience at the Institute of Physiology, University of Bern, where he is Co-Director since 2010. His recent work is devoted to the neuronal least action principle from which dynamic laws of neuron and synaptic plasticity are derived in a similar way as the law of motion is derived from the least action principle in physics. The theory links cortical microcircuits with behavioral error minimization, links to artificial intelligence and serves as a basis to design neuromorphic hardware. W. Senn is involved in various international collaborations (such as EBRAINS 2.0).