Neuropharmacology

Biography

Srikanth Ramaswamy is an in silico neuroscientist. He studies the principles of synaptic organization in a digital reconstruction of neocortical tissue. He graduated from the National Institute of Engineering in Mysore, India with a first class Honors degree n Electrical Engineering in 2002. In 2003, he was awarded a British Chevening Scholarship by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK for a Master’s in Electrical Power Engineering at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, which he completed with commendable mention in 2004. During my Master's, he developed a keen interest in neuroscience and won a scholarship by the BBVA Foundation to work with Profs. Gonzalo de Polavieja and Pablo Varona at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid between 2005 and 2006. In 2006, he joined the Blue Brain Project headed by Prof. Dr. Henry Markram at the EPFL in Lausanne as one of its first scientific team members and began working on my PhD thesis, which he completed in 2011. His thesis focused on modeling synaptic connections between neurons, and on validating the model against experimental data. Since 2011, he is a senior neuroscientist in the Blue Brain Project, where he leads efforts in modelling synaptic in a digital reconconstruction of neocortical tissue.

Abstract

Abstract : Reconstruction and simulation of neocortical microcircuitry