Computational neuroscientist, senior group leader at the FMI, and assistant professor at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Main interest in learning, memory, and information processing in biological spiking neural networks.
CV
e-mail: friedemann.zenke@fmi.ch
Github: github.com/fzenke
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1883-644X
Education
| 2014 | PhD, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2009 | Physics, Helmholtz-Institute for Radiation- and Nuclear Physics, University of Bonn, Germany |
| 2006 | Physics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia |
Positions held
| 2026-present | Senior Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2022-present | Assistant Professor, University of Basel, Switzerland |
| 2019-2026 | Junior Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2017-2019 | Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford, UK |
| 2015-2017 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, USA |
Short bio text
Friedemann Zenke studied physics at the University of Bonn, and the Australian National University in Canberra, before moving to computational neuroscience for his Ph.D. with Wulfram Gerstner at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Subsequently, Friedemann joined Surya Ganguli’s group at Stanford as a post-doc, and later, he moved to the University of Oxford as a Sir Henry Wellcome fellow with Tim Vogels. Currently, Friedemann is a research group leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) and an assistant professor at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His group addresses fundamental theoretical questions about biological neural networks and learning algorithms.
