Alain Destexhe

Biography

 Alain Destexhe, research director CNRS and CNRS Silver Medal 2008 is today member of the Integrative and computational neuroscience unit (UNIC) of the CNRS at Gif-sur-Yvette.  He is also Director of the European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience (EITN) in Paris.  His research team is located both in Gif sur Yvette and at the EITN in Paris. In 2000, he got an ATIP young researcher startup from CNRS and participated to the creation of this unit of research which associates experimentation and theory. During his PhD in the department of Ilya Prigogine, Nobel prize of Chemistry 1977, he has described the electroencephalographic activity of human brains with dynamical systems and chaos theory before joining the Salk Institute of San Diego where he has set up during three years an international collaboration between biologists and physicists, which gave rise to a record number of scientific publications. In the next five years, Alain Destexhe created a computational neuroscience laboratory at the faculty of medicine of Laval University (Québec, Canada) where he continued his theoretical work in close relation with experiments, and he later joined the CNRS in 2000. He is now editor in chief of the "Journal of Computational Neuroscience" and director of the Theoretical Neuroscience activities in the Human Brain Project.   

Research Interest

 human brains