Swartz Program
Swartz Center Postdoctoral Fellow Positions
Based on a grant from the Swartz Foundation, Harvard University has established a new Swartz Program in Theoretical Neuroscience. Led by Professors Haim Sompolinsky and Markus Meister, the Swartz Program will operate within the Center for Brain Science at Harvard, benefiting from its broad, interdisciplinary connections to neural, cognitive, and physical sciences. The Swartz Program will support postdoctoral fellows, who will engage in research collaborations with faculty members of the Center for Brain Science.
The Center for Brain Science includes junior and senior faculty doing research on topics such as songbird learning, retinal physiology, human motor control, large scale reconstruction of neural circuitry, fly olfaction, inhibitory circuitry development, rodent decision-making, zebrafish vision, and fMRI studies of human memory. A new building, which will be completed in 2008, will house a large part of this research. The Swartz Program will aid in building a program in theoretical neuroscience, to interact with these ongoing experimental efforts.
The Swartz Foundation has taken the lead in building theoretical neuroscience in the United States over the past several years. To complement the Swartz Program, other faculty are being recruited into the Center for Brain Science, and new courses are being offered at the undergraduate and graduate level. The Swartz Program will provide for research collaborations between theorists and experimentalists.
Center for Brain Science faculty members who are participating in the Swartz Program in Theoretical Neuroscience include:
Randy Buckner
Florian Engert
Takao Hensch
Gabriel Kreiman
Jeff Lichtman
Markus Meister
Venkatesh Murthy
Bence Ölveczky
Clay Reid
Aravinthan Samuel
Maurice Smith
Haim Sompolinsky
Naoshige Uchida
Leslie Valiant
Rachel Wilson