Computational neuroscientist, senior group leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, and assistant professor at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His goal is to understand the principles of biological intelligence with a main interest in learning, memory, and information processing in biological neural networks.
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e-mail: friedemann.zenke@fmi.ch
Github: github.com/fzenke
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1883-644X
Education
| 2014 | PhD, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2009 | 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. He also studied at the Australian National University in Canberra. He pursued his Ph.D. in computational neuroscience with Wulfram Gerstner at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). After his Ph.D., Friedemann joined Surya Ganguli’s group at Stanford as a postdoctoral researcher. He then moved to the University of Oxford as a Sir Henry Wellcome fellow with Tim Vogels. Friedemann is now a senior 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.
