Dr. Panayiota Poirazi will give a talk entitled “Decoding the mysteries of biological and artificial intelligence” at Athens Science Festival 2024!

What are the differences and similarities between biological and artificial neural networks? Who would be the winner in a “biological versus artificial intelligence” battle? Dr. Panayiota Poirazi will guide us in a fascinating exploration of the wonderful world of the brain – both biological and artificial – through her talk entitled “Decoding the mysteries of […]

A Brain Awareness Week event: Brain and Artificial Inteligence, 26.03.2024 at Heraklion!

Come and join us in the upcoming event of Brain Awareness Week, on 26.03.2024, about Brain and Artificial Intelligence: A Fascinating Dynamic Interplay, organized by the Hellenic Society for Neuroscience. Dr. Panayiota Poirazi will be speaking about Unraveling the Brain-AI Dichotomy. For more details about the event check the files below: Event Poster  Αφίσα Εκδήλωσης […]

Check out our recent review article on the role of dendrites in brain efficiency!

We are excited to share our latest review, Dendrites and Efficiency: Optimizing Performance and Resource Utilization, which has been published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology. In this review, PhD candidates Roman Makarov and Michalis Pagkalos, together with Dr. Panayiota Poirazi, explore the growing body of recent experimental and theoretical works that highlight the crucial role […]

Congratulations to Ph.D. candidates Ioanna Pandi and Roman Makarov for receiving travel grants for the 30th Meeting of the HSfN!

We are overjoyed to congratulate two of the Ph.D. candidates in our lab for receiving travel grants for the 30th Meeting of the Hellenic Society for Neuroscience at the National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos” in Athens. Both of them have been accepted to present their work in two different posters. Learn more about this […]

Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Ioanna Pandi for receiving a travel grant to attend The Brain Conference: Structuring Knowledge for Flexible Behaviour!

We are excited and proud to announce that Ioanna Pandi a very talented Ph.D. candidate in our lab, recently received one of the 11 travel grants for international students for The Brain Conference: Structuring Knowledge for Flexible Behaviour organized by FENS in Rungsted Kyst, Denmark. She was also selected to give a talk and present […]

Dendrify: a new framework for adding dendrites to spiking neural networks

Deciphering the secrets of the brain is considered to be one of the most important scientific endeavours of the 21st century. A better understanding of the mechanisms underlying brain function will contribute both to research into the treatment of neurological diseases and to the field of Artificial Intelligence, which has become an integral part of […]