RENATO CARLOS FARINHA DUARTE (0316-A9B4-70CA)

Curriculum Vitae

RENATO CARLOS FARINHA DUARTE

RENATO DUARTE (ORCID: 0000-0001-6099-667X) is a researcher at the Center for Neurosciences and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Portugal (CNC-UC), working in the domain of systems and computational neuroscience, under the thematic line "Neuroscience and Disease" at the Associate Laboratory CIBB - Center for Innovative Biomedicina and Biotechnology. With a joint doctoral degree in Computational Neuroscience from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the University of Edinburgh (confered in 2018, as part of the Erasmus Mundus joint doctoral program EuroSPIN), he conducted his doctoral research under the guidance of Abigail Morrison (Forschungszentrum Jülich), including several mobility periods and research stays at the Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University of Edinburgh (hosted by Peggy Sèries, Matthias Hennig and Mark van Rossum), the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr-University Bochum (hosted by Sen Cheng) and the Max-Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics (Neurobiology of Language group, hosted by Peter Hagoort and Karl Magnus Petersson). After completing his doctoral degree with highest honours, he became a PostDoctoral researcher at the Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. He later served as an Assistant Professor at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, and researcher at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior. His primary focus is on learning and memory in neocortical circuits, with a strong emphasis on synaptic plasticity and population dynamics. His research aims to bridge circuit architecture (particularly biochemical composition), dynamics and information processing. Despite being at an early career stage, he has made substantial contributions to the field, as evidenced by 18 peer-reviewed publications, including in high-impact journals (PNAS, Journal of Physiology or eLife). As a mentor, he has supervised 3 MSc theses and co-supervised 4 PhD theses. He has taught various courses across different Universities and Faculties and is a very dedicated and engaged researcher and mentor, according to peer feedback. He has participated as an affiliated researcher in 3 international consortia and led 2 large computing projects at the Jülich Supercomputing Center. His expertise in the field are internationally recognized as demonstrated by regular peer-review invitations to prominent journals, guest lecturing invitations to some international meetings and an international award in recognition of his doctoral research. He has also organized international workshops and tutorials and is a well established researcher in the fields of computational neuroscience and neuro-inspired computing.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: RENATO CARLOS FARINHA DUARTE

Citation names

Duarte, Renato
Renato Carlos Farinha Duarte
Renato Carlos F Duarte
Renato C F Duarte

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 0316-A9B4-70CA
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6099-667X
Google Scholar ID: NeD4kokAAAAJ
Researcher Id: N-6981-2013
Scopus Author Id: 56395014100

Email addresses

renato.duarte@cnc.uc.pt (Professional)

Addresses

Biocant Park, Cantanhede Technological Park, Núcleo 04, Lote 8, 3060-197, Cantanhede, Cantanhede, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://rcfduarte.github.io (Scholar)
https://twitter.com/Renatocfduarte (Social media)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/renatocfduarte/ (Social media)

Knowledge fields

Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics
Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences
Social Sciences - Psychology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2011 - 2018/05/03 Concluded	Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral program in Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience (EuroSPIN) (Doktor (PhD)) Major in Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany The University of Edinburgh Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, United Kingdom University of Freiburg Bernstein Center Freiburg, Germany "State-dependent processing with Spiking Neural Networks" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Summa cum laude
2009/10 - 2011/08 Concluded	Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology (Mestrado) Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Portugal "Self-organized sequence processing in a recurrent neural network with multiple interacting plasticity mechanisms" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2009 Concluded	Pharmaceutical Sciences (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal	12

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal

2018 - 2021	Postdoc (Research)	Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany

2018/10 - 2020/08	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
	Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands (...)
2014/09 - 2018/08	Researcher (Research)	Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany

2013/04 - 2014/08	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Ruhr-Universität Bochum Institut für Kognitive Neurowissenschaft, Germany

2011/09 - 2014/08	Researcher (Research)	Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
	University of Freiburg Bernstein Center Freiburg, Germany

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/10 - 2023/09	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Radboud Universiteit Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour, Netherlands
	Radboud Universiteit Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen, Netherlands

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2011/09 - 2014/08	EuroSPIN - European Study Programme In Neuroinformatics - PhD Student Fellow	European Commission Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2024/01 - Current	DYNAMIC BRAIN FUNCTION: Towards the Understanding and Treatment of Brain Disorders 952422 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal	European Commission Ongoing
2022/02 - 2023/09	Dutch Brain Interfaces Initiative (DBI2) DBI2 Researcher Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands Radboud Universiteit Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour, Netherlands	Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Ongoing
2015 - 2018	Supercomputing and modeling for the Human brain (SMHB) SMHB Researcher Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany Helmholtz-Konsortium, Germany	Helmholtz-Konsortium Ongoing

Other

	Designation	Funders
2019/05 - 2021/10	Functional Neural Architectures jinm60 Principal investigator Forschungszentrum Jülich Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany	Helmholtz-Konsortium Concluded
2015/05 - 2018/04	Synaptic timescales and online processing memory jias61 Principal investigator Forschungszentrum Jülich Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany	Helmholtz-Konsortium Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference paper	Quaresima, Alessio; Fitz, Hartmut; DUARTE, RENATO; Hagoort, Peter; Petersson, Karl Magnus. "Dendritic non-linearity supports the formation and reactivation of word memories as cell assemblies". Paper presented in 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2023), Marseille, 2023. Published DUARTE, RENATO; Uhlmann, Marvin; Broek, Dick Van Den; Fitz, Hartmut; Petersson, Karl Magnus; Morrison, Abigail. Corresponding author: DUARTE, RENATO. "Encoding symbolic sequences with spiking neural reservoirs". Paper presented in International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Rio de Janeiro, 2018. Published • 10.1109/ijcnn.2018.8489114 Zajzon, Barna; DUARTE, RENATO; Morrison, Abigail. Corresponding author: Zajzon, Barna. "Transferring State Representations in Hierarchical Spiking Neural Networks". 2018. 10.1109/ijcnn.2018.8489135 Broek, Dick van den; Uhlmann, Marvin; DUARTE, RENATO; Fitz, Hartmut; Hagoort, Peter; Petersson, Karl Magnus. Corresponding author: Broek, Dick van den. "The best spike filter kernel is a neuron". Paper presented in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN), NYC, 2017. Published DUARTE, RENATO; Seriès, Peggy; Morrison, Abigail. "Self-Organized Artificial Grammar Learning in Spiking Neural Networks". Paper presented in 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec, 2014. Published
Conference poster	Zajzon, Barna; Morrison, Abigail; Duarte, Renato. "Information transfer in modular spiking networks". Paper presented in Advanced Methods in Theoretical Neuroscience, 2019.
Journal article	Han-Jia Jiang; Guanxiao Qi; Renato Duarte; Dirk Feldmeyer; Sacha J van Albada. "A layered microcircuit model of somatosensory cortex with three interneuron types and cell-type-specific short-term plasticity". Cerebral Cortex (2024): https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae378. 10.1093/cercor/bhae378 Schulte to Brinke, Tobias; Dick, Michael; DUARTE, RENATO; Morrison, Abigail. "A refined information processing capacity metric allows an in-depth analysis of memory and nonlinearity trade-offs in neurocomputational systems". Scientific Reports 13 1 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37604-0. Published • 10.1038/s41598-023-37604-0 Zajzon, Barna; DUARTE, RENATO; Morrison, Abigail. "Toward reproducible models of sequence learning: replication and analysis of a modular spiking network with reward-based learning". Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 17 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2023.935177. Published • 10.3389/fnint.2023.935177 Barna Zajzon; David Dahmen; Abigail Morrison; DUARTE, RENATO. "Signal denoising through topographic modularity of neural circuits". eLife (2023): https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.77009. 10.7554/eLife.77009 Quaresima, Alessio; Fitz, Hartmut; DUARTE, RENATO; Broek, Dick van den; Hagoort, Peter; Petersson, Karl Magnus. "The Tripod neuron: a minimal structural reduction of the dendritic tree". (2023): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/18925. 10.1113/JP283399 Schulte to Brinke, Tobias; DUARTE, RENATO; Morrison, Abigail. "Characteristic columnar connectivity caters to cortical computation: Replication, simulation, and evaluation of a microcircuit model". Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 16 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2022.923468. Published • 10.3389/fnint.2022.923468 Weidel, Philipp; DUARTE, RENATO; Morrison, Abigail. Corresponding author: Weidel, Philipp. "Unsupervised Learning and Clustered Connectivity Enhance Reinforcement Learning in Spiking Neural Networks". Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 15 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2021.543872. 10.3389/fncom.2021.543872 Hartmut Fitz; Marvin Uhlmann; Dick van den Broek; DUARTE, RENATO; Peter Hagoort; Karl Magnus Petersson. "Neuronal spike-rate adaptation supports working memory in language processing". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 34 (2020): 20881-20889. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2000222117. 10.1073/pnas.2000222117 Claudia Bachmann; Stefan Rotter; Tom Tetzlaff; DUARTE, RENATO; Abigail Morrison. "Firing rate homeostasis counteracts changes in stability of recurrent neural networks caused by synapse loss in Alzheimer’s disease". PLOS Computational Biology 16 8 (2020): e1007790-e1007790. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007790. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007790 Zajzon, Barna; Mahmoudian, Sepehr; Morrison, Abigail; DUARTE, RENATO. Corresponding author: Zajzon, Barna. "Passing the Message: Representation Transfer in Modular Balanced Networks". Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 13 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2019.00079. 10.3389/fncom.2019.00079 DUARTE, RENATO; Abigail Morrison. "Leveraging heterogeneity for neural computation with fading memory in layer 2/3 cortical microcircuits". PLOS Computational Biology 15 4 (2019): e1006781-e1006781. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006781. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006781 DUARTE, RENATO; Alexander Seeholzer; Karl Zilles; Abigail Morrison. Corresponding author: DUARTE, RENATO. "Synaptic patterning and the timescales of cortical dynamics". Current Opinion in Neurobiology 43 (2017): 156-165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2017.02.007. 10.1016/j.conb.2017.02.007 Weidel, Philipp; Djurfeldt, Mikael; DUARTE, RENATO; Morrison, Abigail. Corresponding author: Weidel, Philipp. "Closed Loop Interactions between Spiking Neural Network and Robotic Simulators Based on MUSIC and ROS". Frontiers in Neuroinformatics 10 (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2016.00031. 10.3389/fninf.2016.00031 Weidel, Philipp; Duarte, Renato; Korvasová, Karolína; Jitsev, Jenia; Morrison, Abigail. "ROS-MUSIC toolchain for spiking neural network simulations in a robotic environment". BMC Neuroscience 16 S1 (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-16-s1-p169. Published • 10.1186/1471-2202-16-s1-p169 DUARTE, RENATO. Corresponding author: DUARTE, RENATO. "Expansion and State-Dependent Variability along Sensory Processing Streams". The Journal of Neuroscience 35 19 (2015): 7315-7316. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0874-15.2015. 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0874-15.2015 Toledo-SuÃ¡rez, Carlos; DUARTE, RENATO; Morrison, Abigail. Corresponding author: Toledo-SuÃ¡rez, Carlos. "Liquid computing on and off the edge of chaos with a striatal microcircuit". Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 8 (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2014.00130. 10.3389/fncom.2014.00130 DUARTE, RENATO; Morrison, Abigail. Corresponding author: DUARTE, RENATO. "Dynamic stability of sequential stimulus representations in adapting neuronal networks". Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 8 124 (2014): http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncom.2014.00124/abstract. 10.3389/fncom.2014.00124 DUARTE, RENATO; Seriès, Peggy; Morrison, Abigail. "Temporal sequence learning via adaptation in biologically plausible spiking neural networks". BMC Neuroscience 15 S1 (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-15-s1-p85. 10.1186/1471-2202-15-s1-p85 DUARTE, RENATO; Seriès, Peggy; Morrison, Abigail. Corresponding author: DUARTE, RENATO. "Syntax processing properties of generic cortical circuits". BMC Neuroscience 14 S1 (2013): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-14-s1-p283. 10.1186/1471-2202-14-s1-p283
Preprint	Alessio Quaresima; Renato Duarte; Hartmut Fitz; Peter Hagoort; Karl Magnus Petersson. "Nonlinear dendritic integration supports Up-Down states in single neurons". 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.05.611249. 10.1101/2024.09.05.611249 Han-Jia Jiang; Guanxiao Qi; DUARTE, RENATO; Dirk Feldmeyer; Sacha J van Albada. "A Layered Microcircuit Model of Somatosensory Cortex with Three Interneuron Types and Cell-Type-Specific Short-Term Plasticity". 2023. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.26.563698. 10.1101/2023.10.26.563698 Alessio Quaresima; Hartmut Fitz; DUARTE, RENATO; Peter Hagoort; Karl Magnus Petersson. "Dendrites support formation and reactivation of sequential memories through Hebbian plasticity". 2023. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.26.559322. 10.1101/2023.09.26.559322 Barna Zajzon; Renato Duarte; Abigail Morrison. "Towards reproducible models of sequence learning: replication and analysis of a modular spiking network with reward-based learning". 2023. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.18.524604. 10.1101/2023.01.18.524604 Agnes Korcsak-Gorzo; Charl Linssen; Jasper Albers; Stefan Dasbach; DUARTE, RENATO; Susanne Kunkel; Abigail Morrison; et al. "Phenomenological modeling of diverse and heterogeneous synaptic dynamics at natural density". 2022. https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.05354.
Thesis / Dissertation	"State-dependent Processing in Spiking Neural Networks". PhD, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2128/19337. Duarte, Renato. "Self-organized sequence processing in recurrent neural networks with multiple interacting plasticity mechanisms". Master, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/3786.

Other

Software

DUARTE, RENATO; Zajzon, Barna; Morrison, Abigail. "Functional Neural Architectures". 2021.
10.5281/zenodo.5648150
Nagendra Babu, Pooja; Linssen, Charl; Eppler, Jochen Martin; Schulte to Brinke, Tobias; Ziaeemehr, Abolfazl; Fardet, Tanguy; Bouhadjar, Younes; et al. "NESTML 4.0". 2021.
10.5281/zenodo.3697733
DUARTE, RENATO; Zajzon, Barna; Morrison, Abigail. "Neural Microcircuit Simulation And Analysis Toolkit". 2017.
10.5281/zenodo.594850
Duarte, Renato. "NEST 2.8.0". 2015.
10.5281/zenodo.32969

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2021/05	The neocortical synaptome: modular temporal specialization through molecular specialization	Umbrella Symposium: Data Analytics, Neuroscience and Multiscale Biomedical Engineering RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, Germany)
2021/04	The biophysical bases of temporal specialization and variable processing memory	Bordeaux Neuro-Symposium INRIA Bordeaux (Bordeauz, France)
2019/05	State-dependent sequence processing with Spiking Neural Networks	NII Shonan Symposium no. 141: Language as Goal-Directed Sequential Behavior: Computational Theories, Brain Mechanisms, Evolutionary Roots Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) (Kanagawa, Japan)
2018/07	Encoding Symbolic sequences with Spiking Neural Reservoirs	International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) IEEE (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2018/05	State-dependent processing in Spiking Neural Networks	Distinguished Seminars Center for Biomedical Research (CBMR) (Faro, Portugal)
2017/09	Leveraging heterogeneity for neural computation with fading memory in layer 2/3 cortical microcircuits	Neural Coding, Computation and Dynamics (NCCD) UCL (Capbreton, France)
2014/12	Synaptic adaptation stabilizes sequential stimulus representations	7th International Workshop on Guided Self-Organization Albert-Ludvigs University Freiburg (Freiburg, Germany)
2014/11/27	Dynamic stimulus representations in adapting neuronal networks	Human Brain Project (HBP) Workshop: Stochastic Neural Computation European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience (EITN) (Paris, France)
2014/07	Self-Organized Artificial Grammar Learning in Spiking Neural Networks	36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society Cognitive Science Society (Quebec, Canada)
2013/05	Syntax processing properties of generic cortical cirucuits	Osnabrück Computational Cognition Alliance Meeting on The Brain as a Self-Organized Dynamical System Osnabrück Computational Cognition Alliance (OCCAM) (Osnabrück, Germany)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2023/04/03 - 2023/04/03	Donders workshop on "Dendritic Computation" (2023/04/03 - 2023/04/03) Symposium (Co-organisor)	Radboud Universiteit Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour, Netherlands
2020/07/18 - 2020/07/18	New interfaces for teaching with NEST: hands-on with the NEST-Desktop GUI and NESTML code generation, tutorial session at the 29th Annual Computational Neuroscience meeting (CNS-2020) (2020/07/18 - 2020/07/18) Workshop (Co-organisor)
2012/09/03 - 2012/09/05	iCoNet PhD Conference (2012/09/03 - 2012/09/05) Conference (Co-organisor)	University of Freiburg Bernstein Center Freiburg, Germany

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2019/09/04 - 2019/09/05	Cognomics: Bridging gaps from genes to cognition Conference	Cognomics Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
2019/02/26 - 2019/02/26	Neuroanatomical foundations of cortical computation Conference	Neuroanatomical foundations of cortical computation Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
2018/10/23 - 2018/10/26	Quantitative approaches to behavior and neural systems Conference	Champalimaud Research Symposium Centro Champalimaud, Portugal
2018/07/08 - 2018/07/13	Advances in Reservoir Computing Workshop	International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
2018/02/27 - 2018/02/27	Cognitive Computation Symposium (CoCoSym): Thinking beyond Deep Learning Symposium	City University of London, United Kingdom
2017/09/07 - 2017/09/08	Integrated Systems Neuroscience (ISN) Conference	The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
2017/09 - 2017/09	Computational Psychiatry Course Seminar	Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland
2016/09/18 - 2016/09/20	Hierarchical Processing Advanced Course Seminar	Centro Champalimaud, Portugal
2015/09/05 - 2015/09/10	Neural Coding, Computation and Dynamics (NCCD) Conference	NCCD 2015
2014/06/07 - 2014/06/08	Practical brain network modeling with The Virtual Brain (TVB) Workshop	Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
2013/06/24 - 2013/07/05	Advanced statistics and data mining summer school	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Facultad de Informática, Spain

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2021/09 - Current	European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS)	Member
2021/09 - Current	The ALBA network for diversity and equity in the brain sciences	Member
2012/06 - Current	Organization for Computational Neuroscience (OCNS)	Member
2012 - Current	Bernstein Association	Member
2006 - 2012	American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)	Member

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2021 - 2023	Neural Computation	Neural Computation (Master)	Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands
2021 - 2023	Reinforcement Learning	Reinforcement Learning (Bachelor)	Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands
2021 - 2021	Neural Information Processing Systems (guest lecturer)	Neural Information Processing Systems (Master)	Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands
2020/03/04 - 2020/03/13	Computational Neuroscience	Spring School in Computational Neuroscience (Doktor (PhD))	European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience (EITN), France
2013 - 2017	Introduction to Scientific Programming with Python	Psicologia (Bachelor)	Ruhr-Universität Bochum Fakultät für Psychologie, Germany

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2021/10 - 2023/10	Examination and evaluation committee for Bachelor thesis, BSc program in Artificial Intelligence Evaluator	Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands
2021/10 - 2023/10	Supervision and evaluation of BSc theses projects in the BSc program in Artificial Intelligence Coordinator	Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands
2018/10 - 2023/10	Daily supervision, assessment and evaluation of Master theses projects, MSc programs in Artificial Intelligence (Cognitive Computing specialization) and Computer Science (neuro-inspired computing specialization) Coordinator	Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands Rheinisch Westfalische Technische Hochschule Aachen Fachgruppe Informatik, Germany
2018 - 2023	Evaluation and examination committee for Master theses projects, MSc program in Artificial Intelligence (Cognitive Computing specialization) and MSc program in Computer Science (Neuro-inspired Computing specialization) Evaluator	Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands Rheinisch Westfalische Technische Hochschule Aachen Fachgruppe Informatik, Germany

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2015 - Current	PLoS Computational Biology	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2017 - 2017	Brain Structure and Function	Springer Heidelberg

Distinctions

Award

2022	Educational innovation award: Combination of classic theory with modern tools and applications Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands
2020	Umbrella award for doctoral dissertation Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany

Title

2018	Summa cum laude for doctoral dissertation Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany University of Freiburg Bernstein Center Freiburg, Germany