Romain Brette.

Romain Brette

Research director, Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics
INSERM

Romain Brette is a research director in the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics at INSERM. He has worked in neuronal biophysics, neuroinformatics, auditory neuroscience, philosophy of neuroscience and, recently,  the behavior and physiology of protists.

Brette earned a master’s degree in neural network theory at King’s College London in 1999 and a second master’s in computer vision and learning theory in Paris. He completed his Ph.D. in mathematical neuroscience as a member of Yves Burnod’s team at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (now part of Sorbonne Université), studying the dynamics of spiking neuron models. He was previously assistant professor of computer science at Ecole Normale Supérieure.

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