Borys Wróbel

Biography

As the Scientific Director of the European Institute for Brain Research (EIBR), Borys Wróbel is building a brain bank that uses innovative methods to store neural tissue, preserving the structure of neurons with unprecedented quality at a nanoscale level. His other research interest are computational properties of biologically-inspired models of computation (artificial gene regulatory networks and spiking neural networks). Borys obtained a PhD in biology from the University of Gdansk in 1998. He was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher in the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, FEBS and EMBO Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Valencia, Sciex Fellow in the Institute of Neuroinformatics at the University of Zurich and ETHZ, Kosciuszko Fellow at Oregon State University, and full professor of biological sciences at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. He is an alumnus of The Young Academy of the Polish Academy of Sciences.