Gustavo Deco

Gustavo Deco is research professor at the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) and professor (Catedrático) at the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) where he leads the Computational Neuroscience group. He was also director of the Center of Brain and Cognition from 2001 to 2021 at UPF. In 1987, he received his PhD in physics for his thesis on relativistic atomic collisions. In 1987, he was a postdoc at the University of Bordeaux in France. From 1988 to 1990, he obtained a postdoc of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Giessen in Germany. From 1990 to 2003, he led the Computational Neuroscience Group at Siemens Corporate Research Center in Munich, Germany. He obtained in 1997 his Habilitation (maximal academical degree in Germany) in computer science at the Technical University of Munich for his thesis on neural learning. In 2001, he received his PhD in psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. In 2012, he received an ERC Advanced Grant and recently in 2022 he received an ERC Synergy Grant.