Haim Sompolinsky
Haim Sompolinsky | |
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חיים סומפולינסקי | |
| Born | October 14, 1949 |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Awards | Landau Prize for Brain Science (2008) Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience (2011) Mathematical Neuroscience Prize from Israel Brain Technologies (2013) Gruber Neuroscience Prize (2022) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computational Neuroscience Statistical Physics |
| Institutions | Hebrew University of Jerusalem Harvard University |
Haim Sompolinsky (Hebrew: חיים סומפולינסקי; born 1949) is the William N. Skirball Professor of Neuroscience at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (formerly the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation), and a professor of physics at the Racah Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also a visiting professor in the Center of Brain Science at Harvard University and the director of Harvard's Swartz Program in Theoretical Neuroscience. He is widely regarded as one of the leaders of theoretical neuroscience.