Henry Markram

Henry Markram ( born March 28, 1962 in the Kalahari, South Africa) is an Israeli brain scientists of South African origin.

Life

His childhood was spent Henry Markram on his parents' farm in the Kalahari Desert. At age 13, he attended a boarding school near Durban. He then studied medicine and neurophysiology in Cape Town. After his studies he conducted research first at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. There he met his first wife know and assumed Israeli citizenship. After completing his military service in Israel, he moved to the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, where he worked with Nobel laureate Bert Sakmann. In 2002 he was appointed to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which he declined in favor of a better-paid offer the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Today, he is married to his second marriage to the German - Polish neuroscientist Kamila Markram married; they have two children.

Work

He leads the research project Blue Brain, which is to associate his name with a blueprint of the brain, at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ( EPFL). Since EU funding of € 1 billion over 10 years as a European " flagship project " is the name Markrams project to simulate the inner workings of the brain with neural networks on supercomputers and understand Human Brain Project.