Connecting Brain with AI through Computational Neuroscience

We are the Computational Neuroscience and AI group of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Dept of Engineering of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain).

In our lab we combine computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence to theorize on the neuronal mechanisms that underlie cognitive functions and to develop bio-inspired AI. 

Physics, Reinforcement Learning and Neuroscience are used to understand the computational principles of the brain and natural behavior.

We almost always have PhD and Post-Doc positions available. Please, inquire!

Check Lab News in https://twitter.com/morenobote

• Two new papers from the lab: 

Complex behavior from intrinsic motivation to occupy future action-state path space | Nature Communications 2024

Gaze-centered gating, reactivation, and reevaluation of economic value in orbitofrontal cortex | Nature Communications 2024

• Interview in La mecánica del caracol, Radio Euskadi, by Eva Caballero. September 2024

• In the press La Vanguardia y Paréntesis Media. September 2024

• A talk on the Maximum Occupancy Principle at CNeuro24. September 2024 

• Fantastic summer school CNeuro24 in Beijing. August 2024

• Talk at the Escola Europea d'Humanitats. June 2024

• Interview at Ethic. June 2021

• Interview by the journalist Elina Makri. May 2021

• Belen de Sancristobal, congrats for your faculty position at ELISAVA! September 2020

• Ignasi Cos, congrats for your faculty position at UB! March 2019

• An honor: inaugural talk of the Dept. of Neurosciences in the Univ. of Chile. October 2018

• Interview in La Contra, La Vanguardia. June 2018

• Alexandre Hyafil, awarded with a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship. Congrats! June 2018

• Belén Sancristobal, awarded with a La Caixa post-doctoral fellowship to come to our lab. Congrats! March 2018

• The prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute funds our research. In the press La Vanguardia. Interview in La Vanguardia. May 2017

• The prestigious ICREA Academia funds our research. 

• Our group in the press ABC, La Vanguardia, El Punt Avui. March 2017

• Belén Sancristobal, a new post-doc in the lab, welcome! January 2017

• We congratulate Alex Hyafil for his Joven Investigador fellowship, he will join us in April 2017

• The Schmitt Foundation funds our group and David Samu, a new post-doc in the lab. June 2016

• Our group in the newspapers link & link. March 2016

• FLAG ERA project funded. Oct 2015

• We congratulate Gabriela Mochol for getting a Juan de la Cierva Award. She will join the lab soon as a post-doc. Sep 2015

• I just arrived to the UPF as a Serra Húnter Professor. Wish me luck in my new teaching duties! Sep 2015