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16.04.2019
Doctorate

“Working at the Bernstein Center has been a great opportunity for me.”

This is what Mohammadreza Mohagheghi Nejad thinks overall about his time as a PhD student in Freiburg. Now that the biomedical engineer has successfully finished his doctorate, what is going through the mind of the young scientist after graduating? He talked with the Bernstein Center Freiburg about this. ►

04.04.2019
Award

Golan Karvat wins Best Paper Award

Golan Karvat, PhD student from the Bernstein Center Freiburg in the lab of Prof. Dr. Ilka Diester, wins the Best Paper Award in the 2019 Göttingen meeting of the German Neuroscience Society. The talk was selected as the best talk according to the criteria: novelty of findings presented, potential impact on future research and the quality of the presentation. ►

07.03.2019
Publication

Controlling Biological Neuronal Networks with Reinforcement Learning

It is an important therapeutic strategy for many neurological disorders to influence brain activity by means of deep brain stimulation. However, setting stimulus parameters optimally is a difficult problem. To make stimulation more efficient, an interdisciplinary research team from the University of Freiburg proposes a new closed-loop control paradigm based on reinforcement learning. Their findings have now been published in Neurocomputing. ►

22.02.2019
Lecture Series

Lecture Videos online

Good news for everyone who missed lectures in our series "Ways to Explore the Brain" or who would like to listen to them again: The video recordings are now online. Click here to go to the Bernstein Video Channel ►

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