Report title: How the brain works on the whole

Time: Tuesday, May 8, 2018, 9:30

Location: Feiyun Building 406

Academician Aike Guo Introduction:

       Aike Guo, a neuroscience and biophysicist, graduated from the Moscow University in 1965 with a degree in biophysics. In 1979, he received a doctorate in natural science from the University of Munich. In 2003, he was elected a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is currently a researcher at the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Neuroscience of the Shanghai Institute of Life Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was the chief scientist of the “973” project “Basic Research on Brain Development and Plasticity” (2000-2005) and “Study on Plasticity of Brain Structure and Function” (2006-2008). He has served as the frontier and cross-disciplinary researcher of the Strategic Science and Technology Special (B) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences: The Chief Scientist of the Brain Function Linkage Research Program (2012-2017). He has been engaged in visual information processing, learning memory cognition and computational neuroscience research for many years. He won the 2006 Heliang Heli Life Science Award and won the Asia Pacific Neural Network Association Outstanding Achievement Award in 2008.