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Place of Birth: Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
About Olaf Sporns
- Olaf Sporns (born 18 September 1963, Kiel, West Germany) is Provost Professor in Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University and Scientific Co-Director of the Indiana University Network Science Institute.
- He is also the founding editor of the academic journal Network Neuroscience, published by MIT Press.Dr.
- Sporns received his degree from University of Tübingen in Tübingen, West Germany before going to New York to study at the Rockefeller University under Gerald Edelman.
- After receiving his doctorate, he followed Edelman to the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, California. His focus is in the area of computational cognitive neuroscience.
- His topics of study include functional integration and binding in the cerebral cortex; neural models of perception and action; network structure and dynamics; applications of information theory to the brain; and embodied cognitive science using robotics.
- He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011 in the Natural Sciences category.
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