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 operates within the Center for Brain Science at Harvard, benefiting from its broad, interdisciplinary connections to neural, cognitive, and physical sciences. The Swartz Program supports postdoctoral fellows, who 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. The Swartz Program, housed in the new Northwest Building, 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 provides for research collaborations between theorists and experimentalists.
Current Swartz fellow are
The CBS Swartz fellows run a Theoretical Neuroscience Journal Club Meeting in the Northwest Building, most Fridays at 3 pm in room 243. You can find more information HERE.
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