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Tamar Couprie joins the group as a PhD candidate. Her project False Clarity is an FPN Strategic Research Plan interdisciplinary PhD project.

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Mario speaks at the Bernstein Conference workshop Reconciling biology and function in large-scale brain models in Frankfurt. The talk is titled Reconciling Biology and Function via Biophysics-Informed Deep Learning.

Workshop programme

OHBM Neurosalience releases its season 6 finale (S6E15). It is a live-audience panel recorded at OHBM 2026 in Bordeaux. Peter Bandettini hosts Satrajit Ghosh, Giulia Baracchini, Vince Calhoun and Mario.

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OHBM Abstract Atlas ships in the official OHBM 2026 meeting app. It offers semantic search over the annual meeting's abstracts. Mario co-developed it with Satrajit Ghosh.

Abstract Atlas

The Transmitter publishes “What a bird's-eye view of half a million papers reveals about neuroscience”. In this video Mac Shine talks with Mario.

The Transmitter

Kris Evers defends the PhD thesis Layer by layer: From biology to perception through dynamical models of the cortex at Maastricht University.

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OHBM Neurosalience releases S6E8, From rich clubs to mapping neuroscience itself. Mario is interviewed solo by Peter Bandettini.

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Mario gives an invited talk at the EBRAINS Summit 2025. The title is Embodied Biophysical Deep Learning: A Path to Functional Whole-Brain Models.

Mario gives a talk to the neuroscience editors of the Nature journals. The title is Where is Neuroscience Going? A Data-Driven Answer.

Tonio Weidler defends the PhD thesis The mechanism at hand: A goal-driven approach to modeling the human sensorimotor system at Maastricht University. Tonio is now a postdoc in Elia Formisano's lab in Maastricht.

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Ibrahim Che Hashim defends the PhD thesis Deep in predictions: Unravelling visual perception with deep neural networks inspired by hierarchical predictive coding at Maastricht University.

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Alexander Kroner defends the PhD thesis A Deeper Look at Spatial Attention: The Computational and Neural Basis of Visual Saliency at Maastricht University.

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Salil Bhat defends the PhD thesis The efficient cause of science: Computational methods for mapping the visual cortex at Maastricht University.

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Maryam Karimian defends the PhD thesis In Sync: Neural Oscillations and their Relation to Visual Perception and Learning at Maastricht University.

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Rick van Hoof defends the PhD thesis The brain as image processor and generator: towards function-restoring brain-computer-interfaces at Maastricht University.

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