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Nicolas Brunel is an Adjunct Professor of Neurobiology at Duke University, where he contributes to the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS) and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. His research focuses on theoretical models of brain systems, particularly mechanisms of learning and memory at both synaptic and network levels.
Education:
- Pierre and Marie Curie University (France) - Ph.D. in 1993
His work spans neuroscience and computational biology, examining synaptic plasticity, cortical circuits, dendritic nonlinearities, and inhibition stabilization. Using methods from statistical physics, he has shown how network connectivity can reproduce experimentally observed features.
Recent publications demonstrate expertise in diverse neuroscience domains, including cortical and cerebellar circuits, memory mechanisms, and neural network modeling. His research has received significant recognition, including the Prime d'excellence scientifique from the National CNRS in 2011.
Grants:
- NIH - Cortical circuit dynamics (2019-2024)
- NIH - Striatal microcircuits in habit formation (2018-2023)
- University of Chicago - Multiscale cortical dynamics (2017-2023)
