About us

Responsive image Despite huge advances in artificial intelligence (AI), the mammalian brain is still unrivaled in terms of sustainability and speed of learning, and robustness in inference. One central goal of AI research is to build intelligent systems that exceed the capabilities of biological brains. However, to date we know very little about how computations in neuronal circuits give rise to biological intelligence.

Our group uses AI both as a testbed and a tool on large scale neuro-physiological and -anatomical data to better understand the constituent elements of neuronal intelligence. We are inspired by the idea that a deeper understanding of computational motifs in cortical circuits can help build the next generation of intelligent systems.

We are based at the University Göttingen. We closely collaborate with experimental and computational neuroscientists to develop new tools and experimental paradigms to discover principles of biological intelligence.

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News

April 2025

The MICrONS package has finally been published in Nature.
February 2025

Fabian is co-organizing the CAJAL NeuroAI course 2025. Applications are open now until Marth 7th! We have a great list of faculty covering topics from fly to human, and from anatomical models to reinforcement learning.

  • Jacob Yates – UC Berkeley, USA
  • Martin Schrimpf – EPFL, Switzerland
  • Maria Eckstein – Google DeepMind, UK
  • Patrick Mineault – Amaranth Foundation, USA
  • Carsen Stringer – HHMI Janelia Research Campus, USA
  • Chris Summerfield – Oxford University, UK
  • John Krakauer – Champalimaud, Portugal
  • Memming Park – Champalimaud, Portugal
  • Andreas Tolias – Stanford, USA
  • Jonathan Pillow – Princeton University, USA
  • Shailee Jain – UC San Francisco, USA
January 2025

Konsti successfully defended his thesis. Congratulations Dr. Willeke!
January 2025

Mohammad’s and Luca’s work has been accepted as an oral at ICLR 2025. Less than 1.8% of submissions received an oral this year. According to Paper Copilot we are #1 in neuroscience and #34 overall. Congrats Mohammand and Luca for this great achievement!
December 2024

Fabian received a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council. We are very happy about this and looking forward to exciting research and great collaborations.

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