Prof. Jean-Pascal Pfister
Theoretical Neuroscience Group
Institute of Neuroinformatics
University of Zurich and ETH Zurich
Winterthurerstrasse 190
8057 Zurich, Switzerland
www.ini.uzh.ch/∼jpfister
[email protected]
Tel: +41 44 635 30 79
37, married, 4 children, Swiss
Education
July 06:
March 02:
PhD in Computational Neuroscience, EPFL, Switzerland. Finalist for
the best thesis award.
M.Sc in Physics, EPFL, Switzerland, Annaheim award. Third year at
The University of Nottingham, UK.
Professional experiences in academia
Since Sept 14:
April 13 - July 13:
Oct. 11 - Aug. 14:
Aug. 10- Sept. 11:
April 08 - July 10:
Aug. 02 - Aug. 06:
SNF professor at the Institute for Neuroinformatics (ETHZ / University of Z¨
urich).
Sabbatical at the Center for Brain Science (with Prof. H. Sompolinsky), Harvard.
Group Leader of the Theoretical Neuroscience Group, Bern.
Post-doc on learning and memory (with Prof. W. Senn), Bern.
Visitor at the Computation and Biological learning lab, Cambridge,
UK.
Post-doc on auto-associative memory (with Dr. M. Lengyel and
Prof. P. Dayan), Cambridge, UK.
PhD on Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity at the Laboratory of
Computational Neuroscience (Prof. W. Gerstner), EPFL.
Professional experiences in project management
Since Jan 13:
Jan 11 - Dec 12:
April 08 - Nov 09:
Sept 06 -March 08:
Member of the board of Sonceboz SA (900 employees).
Member of the advisory board of Sonceboz SA.
Independent consultant for Medtronic on Deep Brain Stimulation.
Project manager on Deep Brain Stimulation research project at Helbling Technik Bern.
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Grants and awards
Sept. 14:
Oct. 11:
Febr. 11:
Oct. 09:
Jul. 06:
Mar. 02:
Professorship Grant from the Swiss National Foundation (1’437’698 CHF)
Ambizione Grant from the Swiss National Foundation (598’048 CHF)
Cosyne Travel award
NIPS Travel award
Finalist for the best thesis award
Annaheim award
Teaching experience
2015
2014
Course on “Neurophysics” University of Z¨
urich/ETHZ.
Tutor for the course “Zentralnervensystem, Sinnesorgane und Verhalten”.
Bern.
Course on “Neural computation” (Master in Biomedical Sciences). Bern.
Lecture on short-term and long-term plasticity, PhD Summer School,
Freiburg, Germany.
Laboratory on “Geh¨
or und Somatosensorik”. Bern.
Tutor for the course “Introduction to Neuroscience”. Cambridge, UK.
Lecture on synaptic plasticity, Lemanic doctoral school, Geneva.
Assistant for the the course “Bio-mathematical programming”. EPFL.
Assistant for the course “Neural Networks and Biological Modeling”. EPFL.
Teacher of mathematics, physics and biology (>700 hours), at the “Coll`ege
Secondaire Intercommunal de la Planta” Renens, CH.
Teacher of mathematics at the Haute Ecole d’Ingnierie et de Gestion du
Canton de Vaud (HEIG-VD).
2013
2012
2011
2009-10
2005
2005
2004
2002-2006
2003
Reviewer
Journals:
Conferences:
Grant Agency:
Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications, Journal of Neuroscience, Plos Computation Biology, Plos One, Neural Computation, Neurocomputing, Biological Cybernetics, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Journal of Neurophysiology, Progress in Neurobiology.
NIPS, Cosyne.
Binational science foundation (US-Israel).
Languages
French:
English:
German:
mother tongue.
fluent (lived 3 years in UK).
good knowledge (lived 1.5 year in a German speaking region, teaching in German at the University of Bern).
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Conference talks / invited talks
Sept. 14:
June 14:
Sept. 13:
Sept. 13:
Feb. 13:
Oct. 12:
Aug. 12:
Nov. 11:
Sept. 11:
Sept. 11:
July 11:
March 11:
Jan. 11:
Nov 10:
Jan. 10:
Dec. 09:
Dec. 09:
Mai 09:
April 09:
Nov. 08:
July 06:
March 06:
July 03:
June 03:
G¨
ottingen. Matching recall and storage for sequence learning with spiking
neural networks.
University of Lausanne. Short-term and long-term plasticity from a functional
perspective.
University of Sheffield. Computational perspectives on synaptic dynamics and
plasticity.
University of Geneva. Computational perspectives on synaptic dynamics and
plasticity.
University of Geneva. Short-term and long-term synaptic plasticity from a
normative perspective.
iCoNeT PhD Conference, Freiburg, Germany. Computational perspectives on
short-term and long-term plasticity.
ETH Zurich. Synaptic plasticity from first principles.
Marseille.A triplet spike-timing-dependent plasticity model generalizes the
Bienenstock-Cooper-Munro rule to higher-order spatiotemporal correlations.
Riken, Japan. Sequence learning with hidden units in spiking neural networks.
Riken, Japan. Towards a unifying normative theory of short-term and longterm plasticity.
CNS 2011 workshops, Stockholm, Sweden. Theoretical conditions for longlasting neuronal desynchronization in oscillatory recurrent networks with
STDP.
Cosyne 2011 workshops, Salt-Lake-City. Interactions between short-term and
long-term plasticity: shooting for a moving target.
ETH Zurich. Synapses with short-term plasticity are optimal estimators of
presynaptic membrane potentials.
The Clinical Neuroscience Day, Bern. Functional consequences of a triplet
model of Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity.
Sheffield University. Synaptic plasticity from first principles.
NIPS 2009 main conference, Vancouver. Know Thy Neighbour: A Normative
Theory of Synaptic Depression.
NIPS 2009 workshop, Whistler. Synaptic plasticity from first principles.
University of Bern. Speed vs Accuracy in Spiking Attractor Networks.
Neuromodulation group (Head: prof. P.A. Tass), J¨
ulich Research Center,
Germany. Synaptic Plasticity and Neuronal Synchrony Models in the Context
of Deep Brain Stimulation
Developmental Computational Neuroscience meeting, Edinburgh. Triplets of
Spikes in a Model of Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity and the Emergence
of Input Selectivity.
CNS 2006, Edinburgh. Why Triplets of Spikes are Necessary in Models of
STDP.
Cosyne 2006, Salt-Lake City. Beyond Pair-Based STDP: a Phenomenological
Rule for Spike Triplet and Frequency Effects.
CCNS 2003, Alicante. Optimal STDP for Precise Action Potential Firing.
ICANN/ICONIP 2003, Istanbul. Optimal Hebbian Learning: a Probabilistic
Point of View.
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Reference List
Prof. Wulfram Gerstner (Thesis supervisor)
Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience
Ecole Polytechnique F´ed´erale (EPFL)
AA-B Building (Station 15)
CH-1015 Lausanne EPFL
Switzerland
Phone: ++41 (0)21 693 6713
Fax: ++41 (0)21 693 9600
E-Mail: [email protected]
Dr. M´
at´
e Lengyel
Computational and Biological Learning Lab
Department of Engineering
University of Cambridge
Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK
Phone: ++44 (0)1223 748 532
Fax: ++44 (0)1223 332 662
E-Mail: [email protected]
Prof. Walter Senn
Department of Physiology
University of Bern
B¨
uhlplatz 5
CH-3012 Bern
Switzerland
Phone: ++41 (0)31 631 87 21
Fax: ++41 (0)31 631 46 11
E-Mail: [email protected]
Prof. Peter Dayan
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
Alexandra House
Room 407, 17 Queen Square
London WC1N 3AR
England
Phone: ++44 (0) 20 7679 1175
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7679 1173
E-Mail: [email protected]
Prof. Haim Sompolinsky
Racah Institute of Physics
The Hebrew University
Jerusalem, 91904, Israel
Phone: ++ 972-2-658-4563
Fax: ++ 972-2-658-4440
E-Mail: [email protected]
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