Werner Van Geit

EPFL BBP-CORE
Campus Biotech
Bâtiment B1
Ch. des Mines 9
CH-1202 Genève
+41 21 693 72 65
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Biography
Werner is the Group Leader of the Cells team within the Simulation Neuroscience Division in the Blue Brain Project at EPFL.The goal of his team is to build the single cell models which are the building blocks of the larger network models used in the Blue Brain Project. The first step when building these cell models consists of reconstructing, analysing and artificially recreating neuron morphologies. Next, a biophysically detailed electrical model for the different cell types is built. For the latter the team uses automated parameter optimisation tools like Blue Brain’s open source BluePyOpt tool, but they are also active in extending and developing other Blue Brain software packages related to single cells.Werner obtained his Masters degree in Informatics from the University of Ghent in 2003, after which he worked as a researcher in the Computational Neuroscience at the University of Antwerp under the supervision of Prof. Erik De Schutter. He then relocated to the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan for three and a half years. After joining Blue Brain in 2011 he has been involved both as researcher and system engineer in the single cell building pipeline.
Professional course
Graduate Student
Theoretical Neurobiology
University of Antwerp, Belgium
2003-2007
Researcher
Computational Neuroscience Unit
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
2007-2011
Scientific Assistant
Cells & Circuits
Blue Brain Project, EPFL
2011-2014
Systems Specialist
Neuroscientific Software Engineering
Blue Brain Project, EPFL
2014-2019
Group Leader / Section Manager
Cells
Blue Brain Project, EPFL
2019-
Education
Masters
Information and Communication Technology
University of Ghent
2003