Gustavo Deco

He is an ICREA researcher (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies) and Professor at Pompeu Fabra University, where he is the director of the "Computational Neuroscience Group" and director of the Center for Brain and Cognition. Since 1998 he is Associate Professor at the Technical University of Munich and Honorary Professor at the University of Rosario, and since 2001 he is Visiting Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität of Munich and McDonnell-Pew Visiting Professor at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience of the University of Oxford. In 2001 he was awarded the international Siemens prize "Inventor of the Year" for his contribution to statistical learning, models of visual perception and fMRI-based diagnosis of neuropsychiatric diseases. His research includes studies in computational neuroscience, neuropsychology, psycholinguistics, biological networks, statistical formulation of neural networks, and chaos theory. He has published four books, more than 347 articles in various international magazines and newspapers and 30 book chapters.