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Olaf Sporns, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Programs in Neural Science and Cognitive Science, Biocomplexity Institute, Indiana University
Olaf Sporns was born in Kiel, Germany, in 1963. After studying biochemistry at the University of Tübingen in Germany, he entered the Graduate Program at New York’s Rockefeller University. In 1990, he received a Ph.D. in neuroscience and became a Senior Fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology at The Neurosciences Institute in New York and San Diego. Since 2000, he has held a faculty position at the Department of Psychology at Indiana University in Bloomington. He is currently an Associate Professor of Psychology, as well as a core member of the Programs in Cognitive Science and Neuroscience, and directs the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (www.indiana.edu/~cortex/CCNL.html). Dr. Sporns’ main research field is theoretical and computational neuroscience. A main research focus is the design of neuronal models that can be interfaced with autonomous robots and can be used to study neurobiological and cognitive functions such as perceptual categorization, sensorimotor development, and the development of neuronal receptive field properties. Another focus is the design of anatomically and physiologically detailed models of neuronal networks to investigate the large-scale dynamics of neuronal populations. This work includes the development of statistical measures for characterizing complexity in neuronal networks as well as methods for analyzing the topological structure of neuronal connectivity patterns. Dr. Sporns is a member of the AAAS, the Society for Neuroscience, the International Society for Adaptive Behavior, the Cognitive Neuroscience Society and Sigma Xi. He is an associate editor or member of the editorial board of the journals BioSystems, Adaptive Behavior, the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, the Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, and Neuroinformatics.
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