Information Theory in Neuroscience

 Stefano Panzeri is a computational neuroscientist who works at the interface between theory and experiments, and investigates how circuits of neurons in the brain encode sensory information and generate behaviour. He graduated in Theoretical Physics at Turin University and then did a PhD in Computational Neuroscience at SISSA, Trieste, Italy. In previous years, he took Fellowships and/or Faculty jobs at the Universities of Oxford, Newcastle, Manchester and Glasgow in the UK, and Harvard Medical School in the US. He currently works as Senior Scientist with Tenure at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Rovereto, Italy. Eugenio Piasini is interested in understanding how the brain performs inference and prediction in noisy, changing environments. In his work he aims to reconcile bottom-up statistical modelling of experimental data with a top-down perspective from normative theories of brain function. He holds a PhD from University College London, and he did postdoctoral work at the Italian Institute of Technology. He is now a Fellow (independent postdoc) of the Computational Neuroscience Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania.