Olaf Sporns
Olaf Sporns (born 18 September 1963) is Provost Professor in Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University and scientific co-director of the university's Network Science Institute. He is the founding editor of the academic journal Network Neuroscience, published by MIT Press.
Olaf Sporns | |
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Olaf Sporns | |
| Born | September 18, 1963 |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of Tübingen (B.A., 1986) Rockefeller University (Ph.D., 1990) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neuroscience, Cognitive Science |
| Institutions | Indiana University |
| Thesis | Synthetic neural modeling: computer simulations of perceptual and motor systems (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gerald Edelman |
Sporns received his degree from University of Tübingen in Tübingen, West Germany, before going to New York to study at the Rockefeller University under Gerald Edelman. After receiving his doctorate, he followed Edelman to the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, California.
His focus is in the area of computational cognitive neuroscience. His topics of study include functional integration and binding in the cerebral cortex, neural models of perception and action, network structure and dynamics, applications of information theory to the brain and embodied cognitive science using robotics. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011 in the Natural Sciences category.