Yoram Burak

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Racah Institute of Physics and Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences
Website : https://buraklab.me
Twitter account : @yoramburak

Title

Coordination between attractor networks in the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex

Biosketch

Yoram Burak is the William N. Skirball Chair in Neurophysics, and an Associate Professor at the Racah Institute of Physics and the Safra Center for Brain Sciences, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Tel-Aviv University, supervised by Prof. David Andelman. Before joining the Hebrew University in 2012, Yoram Burak was a postdoctoral research associate at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB, and a Swartz Postdoctoral Fellow in Theoretical Neuroscience at the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University. His research aims to identify how neural circuits in the brain implement computational functions.