Tim Vogels


Tim Vogels is a University Professor and Sir Henry Dale Fellow at Oxford University. Dr. Vogels is primarily known for his work on neuroplasticity and spiking neural networks done as a doctoral student under Larry Abbott and as a postdoctoral researcher under Wulfram Gerstner. He presently runs the Vogels Group at the Oxford Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour.
Vogels has received numerous awards for his work in the field including memberships in the Royal Society and the Kavli-FENS Network of Excellence. In 2012, he was awarded the Bernstein Award in Computational Neuroscience.

Biography

Vogels studied theoretical physics at the Technical University of Berlin and neuroscience under Larry Abbott and Eve Marder at Brandeis University through the Fulbright Program. After a postdoctoral stay as a Patterson Brain Trust Fellow with Rafael Yuste at Columbia University, he became a Marie Curie Reintegration Fellow in the laboratory of Wulfram Gerstner at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. In 2013, he moved to Oxford University.
Since 2017, Vogels has been a key coordinator of the IBRO-Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo.

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Notable awards