Affiliated scientists

Coneural reunites synergetically several researchers from Cluj, Romania also affiliated with various other academic and industrial institutions.

Razvan Florian (director of Coneural) graduated at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France and is a PhD student at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. He previously was a visiting researcher at the University of Genova (Italy), RIKEN Brain Science Institute (Japan), Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (USA) and LMDH, Paris VI University (France). His interests include cognitive robotics, interactionist and constructivist models of knowledge representation, spiking neural networks, computational neuroscience, and the cognitive basis of science.

Raul Muresan holds a PhD from the Technical University of Cluj. He previously was a postdoc scientist at Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies and the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research and principal researcher at Nivis Ldt. His research interests include the dynamics of neural microcircuits, spiking neural networks and the computational neuroscience of vision.

Sergiu P. Pasca graduated the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj. He is interested in the neurobiological basis of psychiatric diseases (autism and schizophrenia), the neurophysiology of the visual cortex, the disturbances of one carbon metabolism and redox status in neuropsychiatric diseases, and darwinian medicine. He recently received the "Medical student of the year" award in a national competition.

Vlad Moca is a PhD student at the Technical University of Cluj and previously worked in the Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany. He works on theoretical neuroscience.

Ioana Tincas is a PhD student in the Psychology department of Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj. She is interested in developmental cognitive psychology.

Ovidiu Jurjut is a PhD student at Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies and Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt. He is interested in methods for analysis and visualization of multi-dimensional data.

Collaborators

Lehel Csato is a lecturer at Babes-Bolyai University. He graduated at the same university, holds a PhD from Aston University, UK and has been a post-doc at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany and a research assistant at the Institute of Isotopes of the Hungarian Academy of Science. He is interested in probabilistic learning.

Advisory board

Dumitru (Dan) Dumitrescu is a professor in the Computer Science department of Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, where he teaches artificial intelligence, neural networks and evolutionary computation. He also was an invited professor at the University of Pisa, Italy. He authored 9 books and more than 120 papers and is a reviewer of several scientific journals. His current research interests include evolutionary computation, neural networks and biologically inspired computing.

Mircea Miclea is a professor in the Psychology department of Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, and previously was a Minister of Education and Research in the Romanian Government. He was an invited professor at Birmingham University, New School for Social Research (New York), University of Wien, and Universite de Grenoble, and a fellow of New Europe College and of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies. His current research interests include applied cognitive psychology.

Former affiliated scientists

Ioana Goga graduated in computer science from Politehnica University of Bucharest and in psychology from Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, and holds a MS from University College Dublin, Ireland. She was a visiting researcher in the Autonomous Systems Lab at EPFL, Switzerland. Her interests include cortical computation, sensorimotor control and development, pulsed neural networks, epigenetic robotics and imitation learning. She currently works in a software company.

Andreea Lazar is a PhD student at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany.

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