SPACEBRAIN at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)
Alessandro Treves is professor of Neural Computation within SISSA’s Cognitive Neuroscience sector, and also faculty of the PhD programmes in Statistical Physics, and in Science and Society. A theoretical physicist by training (MSc in Rome; PhD in Jerusalem) who joined mainstream neuroscience with a postdoctoral fellowship with Edmund Rolls in Oxford, he is one of the most active researchers in neural computation over the last twenty years. He currently serves as the SISSA Director’s deputy for scientific research, and in the Network of European Neuroscience Schools, in the European Brain and Behaviour Society and in the Human Frontier Science Program grant review committees.
Treves’s Liminar Investigations of Memory and Brain Organization (LIMBO) research group has recently relocated with the Cognitive Neuroscience sector to brand new premises in the former Stock distillery in downtown Trieste, offering attractive spaces for visitors including students, and excellent computer and psychophysics facilities. The LIMBO group currently includes 2 postdocs, 5 PhD students and 1 MSc student, 2 of whom work on hippocampal topics. Erika Cerasti, who has just started her second PhD year, will carry forward the analysis of models of grid cell development as part of the EU collaboration, while a new postdoc, funded by the collaboration, is planned to work full time on the other workpackages.
Treves will contribute the expertise above to the SPACEBRAIN project by formulating and analysing models of MEC laminated networks, models of entorhinal-hippocampal interactions, and models of grid cell developments, while also participating in developing the analyses of recording experiments necessary to test those models.
