Curriculum Vitae
Alfonso Renart
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Alfonso Renart
Citation names
- Renart, Alfonso
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 0C1E-6976-B656
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-7916-9930
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
| Spanish; Castilian | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2000
Concluded
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Ciencias Físicas (Doutoramento)
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
"Models of Multi-areal cortical processing" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Sobresaliente (cum laude) |
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1996
Concluded
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Ciências Físicas (Licenciatura)
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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n/a |
Affiliation
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2016/01/01 - Current | Group Leader (Level Associate) | Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal |
| 2012/09/01 - 2016/12/31 | Director of the International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme | Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal |
| 2011/02/01 - 2015/12/31 | Group Leader (Level Assistant) | Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal |
| 2005/05/01 - 2010/12/31 | Postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Kenneth Harris, at Rutgers University. Electrophysiological recordings of neuronal populations in freely moving rats and mathematical modeling of the temporal structu | Rutgers University Newark, United States |
| 2004/02/01 - 2005/04/30 | Ramon y Cajal researcher. Faculty level position, with the possibility of supervising PhD students and postdocs etc... Research on mathematical models of interval timing and noisy neuronal population | Instituto de Neurociencias, Spain |
| 2001/01/01 - 2003/12/31 | Postdoctoral research at the laboratory of Xiao-Jing Wang, at the Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University. Research on mathematical models of spatial working memory and interval timing. | Brandeis University, United States |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/12/31 - 2026/12/31 | Weber's law: a mechanistic window into sensory disfunction in autism spectrum disorders
HR23-00799
Principal investigator
Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal
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Fundação 'la Caixa'
Ongoing
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| 2022/01/01 - 2025/01/01 | The neural basis of Weber's Law
PTDC/MED-NEU/4584/2021
Principal investigator
Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2018/06/01 - 2021/06/30 | Robustness and Energy-Efficiency of Spiking Neural Networks
LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-032077
Principal investigator
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2013/06/01 - 2017/06/30 | Sound Localization by Neural Populations in the Rat Auditory Cortex
PCIG11-GA-2012-322339
Principal investigator
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European Union
Concluded
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| 2013/01/01 - 2017/01/31 | NeuroSeeker
ICT-2011-9-600925
Principal investigator
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Concluded
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| 2012/09/01 - 2015/09/30 | The Mechanistic Basis of Working Memory in Prefrontal cortical Circuits
RGY0089
Principal investigator
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Human Frontier Science Program
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Book chapter |
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| Preprint |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2019/11/01 | The mechanistic foundation of Weber’s law | Meeting of the International Society of Psychophysics
(Antalya, Turkey)
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| 2019/09/27 | Reversal of the temporal relationship between neural activity and behavior as a signature of spatial decision making | The Predictive Brain Conference
(Marseille, France)
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| 2019/09/09 | Bounded rationality in perceptual decision making | Barcelona summer school for Ad- vanced Modelling of Behavior
(Barcelona, Spain)
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| 2019/07/17 | State-dependence of low-dimensional population dynamics in local cortical circuits | Work- shop on New Perspectives in Cortical Dynamics
Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS) (Barcelona, Spain)
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| 2018/09/07 | The mechanistic foundation of Weber’s law | Neurobucano
Federal University of Pernambuco (Recife, Brazil)
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| 2018/06/19 | The mechanistic foundation of Weber’s law |
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat (Munich, Germany)
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| 2017/09/20 | Stimulus quality vs stimulus intensity in sensory discrimination | Neural Coding, Computation and Dynamics
(Capbreton, France)
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| 2017/07/13 | The cost of control in perceptual decision-making | A midex: CompNeuro Days
INSERM (Marseille, France)
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| 2017/07/06 | Geometry and State-dependence of population codes in the rat auditory cortex |
INSERM (Marseille, France)
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| 2017/04/28 | The Cost of Control in Perceptual Decision Making |
Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University (New York, United States)
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| 2017/03/30 | The role of cognitive control to perceptual decision making |
IDIBAPS (Barcelona, Spain)
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| 2016/12/06 | Contributions of EI balance to the desynchronization of recurrent networks | 20th Aniversary of Excitation-Inhibition Conference
(Mitzpe Ramon, Israel)
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| 2016/09/28 | Geometry and state-dependence of population codes in the rat auditory cortex | PhD student Conference
(Freiburg, Germany)
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| 2016/02/27 | Transient competitive amplification during states of cortical activation | COSYNE
(Salt Lake City, United States)
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| 2015/12/10 | State-dependence of low-dimensional population dynamics in local cortical circuits |
EPFL (Laussanne, Switzerland)
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| 2015/10/07 | Comparing neural and behavioral accuracy for auditory discriminations |
Insitute of Vision (Paris, France)
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| 2015/06/04 | Population dynamics during states of cortical activation | Bernstein-Sparks Workshop Beyond mean field theory in the neurosciences
(Gottingen, Germany)
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| 2014/12/25 | Transient competitive amplification in cortical circuits |
Technion (Haifa, Israel)
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| 2014/09/11 | Excitatory-Inhibitory coupling in recurrent neural circuits | Summer Course on Computational Neuroscience, Gottingen
(Gottingen, Germany)
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| 2014/04/04 | Transient competitive amplification in cortical circuits |
EPFL (Laussanne, Switzerland)
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| 2014/04/02 | Transient competitive amplification in cortical circuits |
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College (London, United Kingdom)
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| 2014/03/19 | Dynamics of cortical neuronal populations |
Instituto Superior Tecnico (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2014/03/03 | Excitatory-Inhibitory coupling in recurrent neural circuits | COSYNE WORKSHOP Excitatory and Inhibitory Synaptic Conductances: Functional Roles and Inference Methods
(Salt Lake City, United States)
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| 2014/02/10 | Studying the dynamics of cortical circuits | JORTEC
FCT/UNL (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2013/09/24 | Spontaneous dynamics of cortical circuits during activated states | Bernstein Conference
(Tubingen, Germany)
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| 2013/05/30 | Competitive dynamics during spontaneous activity | ESF workshop Noise in Decision Making
(Barcelona, Spain)
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| 2012/11/22 | Does the variability of sensory neurons constrain the accuracy of perception? |
EPFL (Laussanne, Switzerland)
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| 2012/11/21 | Does the variability of sensory neurons constrain the accuracy of perception? |
Neuroscience Center, University of Geneva (Geneva, Switzerland)
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| 2012/09/14 | Variability of sensory neurons and the accuracy of perceptual choices |
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2012/09/11 | Neuronal variability and the accuracy of perception |
Group for Neural Theory, Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris, France)
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| 2011/04/27 | The temporal structure of population activity in cortical circuits | Mathematical Neuroscience Workshop
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2011/04/04 | Temporal correlations in recurrent neural networks with balanced excitation and inhibition |
Banbury Center ( Cold Spring Harbor, United States)
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| 2010/06/30 | Understanding spiking correlations in recurrent cortical circuits |
Janelia Farm, HHMI (Ashburn, United States)
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| 2010/05/21 | Spiking correlations in recurrent cortical circuits |
Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University (New York, United States)
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| 2010/03/19 | Temporal correlations in recurrent cortical circuits |
Harvard University (Boston, United States)
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| 2009/12/02 | The asynchronous state in the cerebral cortex | Pan-Iberian Meeting on Systems Neuroscience
(Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2009/03/10 | The asynchronous state in the cerebral cortex |
New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, United States)
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| 2009/02/27 | The asynchronous state in the cerebral cortex | COSYNE
(Salt Lake City, United States)
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| 2008/10/03 | Fast tracking of spontaneous excitatory fluctuations by recurrent inhibition desynchronises spiking activity in the cortex |
Yale University (New Haven, United States)
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| 2007/09/04 | A model of ramping neural activity for interval timing through derivative feedback | Sym- posium on Neurobiological Basis of Timing and Anticipation
Yale University (New Haven, United States)
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| 2006/11/29 | Population dynamics in the rat prefrontal cortex during timing behavior | Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University (New York, United States)
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| 2006/06/02 | Optimal propagation of population codes in feedforward networks |
Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University (New York, United States)
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| 2005/06/20 | Biophysical Mechanisms of Gain Modulation | Summer course of the Fundación Duques de Soria ”Brain mechanisms of attention: biological and computational approaches”
(Soria, Spain)
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| 2005/02/15 | Robust scalar timing in recurrent networks through derivative feedback |
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London (London, United Kingdom)
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| 2004/10/02 | A robust mechanism for interval timing | DDAYS: Segunda reunión de la red temática Dinámica no lineal en dimensión baja y atractores extraños
(La Manga del Mar Menor, Spain)
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| 2000/11/05 | A model of the interaction between inferotemporal and prefrontal cortex in object working memory and visual search tasks | 30th Annual Meeting of the SfN
(New Orleans, United States)
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| 2000/07/18 | The neural mechanisms of working memory modelled by interacting associative memory networks | Computational Neuroscience Conference, CNS
(Brugge, Belgium)
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| 1999/06/03 | Connected cortical recurrent networks | IWANN
(Alicante, Spain)
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| 1999/03/15 | Multi-modular memory systems | Statistical Physics of Neural Networks
(Dresden, Germany)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2018/10/23 - 2018/10/25 | Champalimaud Symposium. General co-chair (2018/10/23 - 2018/10/25)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
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Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal |
| 2017/02/27 - 2017/02/28 | COSYNE Workshops. General co-chair (2017/02/27 - 2017/02/28)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
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| 2016/02/28 - 2016/02/29 | COSYNE Workshops. General co-chair (2016/02/28 - 2016/02/29)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
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| 2012/07/12 - 2012/07/13 | Satellite of FENS: "Dynamics of memory: What is the evidence?" (2012/07/12 - 2012/07/13)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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| 2007/02/27 - 2007/02/27 | COSYNE Workshop: "Decision Making" (2007/02/27 - 2007/02/27)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Distinctions
Other distinction
| 2002 | Neural Systems and Behavior Summer Course
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woodshole Sea Grant, United States
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| 1999 | EU Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience |