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I am Principal Investigator at the International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste, Italy.

I was born in [Genova](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoa) (Italy) in 1974, I received my *scientific* high-school diploma in 1992, and I graduated summa cum laude in *Electronic Engineering* in 1997 at the [Univ. of Genova](http://www.unige.it) (Italy), specializing in *Biomedical* *Engineering*. In 2001, after I received a [PhD in *Bioengineering*](http://www.dottorato.polimi.it/corsi-di-dottorato/corsi-di-dottorato-attivi/bioingegneria/), with a thesis in Computational Neuroscience by the Polytechnic of Milan (Italy), I decided to move abroad to continue my academic training.

In the same year, I received an award from the [Human Frontiers Science Program Organization](http://www.hfsp.org) to pursue postdoctoral training in experimental Electrophysiology and Neurobiology at the [Inst. of Physiology](http://www.physio.unibe.ch) of the Univ. of Bern (Switzerland),
where I had the opportunity to work with Prof. Hans-Rudolf Luescher and [Prof. Stefano Fusi](http://neuroscience.columbia.edu/profile/stefanofusi).  In 2005, I moved to the [Brain Mind Institute](http://bmi.epfl.ch) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne where I joined the experimental lab of [Prof. Henry Markram](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Markram) as junior group leader.

Three years later, in 2008, I was appointed faculty member at the [University of Antwerp](https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/) (Belgium), taking over the
Theoretical Neurobiology lab as a successor of [Prof. Erik De Schutter](https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/132/bio), to extend its scope to
interdisciplinary research in experimental Neuroscience and Neuroengineering. During the period 2013-2015, I was also visiting scientist at the [Neuroelectronics Flanders Institute](http://www.nerf.be) at IMEC, Leuven (Belgium). Over the years, I received visiting appointments at the [Department of Computer Science](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dcs) of the University of Sheffield (UK) and at the Brain Mind Institute of the EPFL (Switzerland).  In 2012, I received my [tenure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_tenure) and later, in 2016,
I was promoted to full professor.

From 2008 until 2019, I directed the Laboratory for Theoretical Neurobiology and Neuroengineering, founding in 2017 a new research unit on Molecular, Cellular, and Network Excitability research.

In 2019, I moved to the International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste, where I became faculty in the Neuroscience Area and I started the Neuronal Dynamics Laboratory.

Dr. Xabier Iturbe received his MSc degree in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from the University of the Basque Country (Spain) in 2007 and his PhD in Electronics Engineering from the University of Edinburgh (UK) in 2013. He is a senior research engineer and EU project coordinator at Ikerlan (Spain), where he currently coordinates the Centre’s research activities in neuromorphic and AI hardware design with a focus on applicability to industry customers. He is also the coordinator of the Horizon Europe research project NimbleAI. In 2014, he received a Marie Curie research fellowship to conduct research at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (USA) and Arm (UK), exploring techniques to enhance fault-tolerance in Arm Cortex-R CPUs and make them suitable for space use. From 2016 to 2018 he was the Arm University Program EMEA manager.

Bernabé Linares-Barranco received the B. S. degree in electronic physics in June 1986 and the M. S. degree in microelectronics in September 1987, both from the University of Seville , Sevilla , Spain . From September 1988 until August 1991 he was a Graduate Student at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering of Texas A&M University. He received a first Ph.D. degree in high-frequency OTA-C oscillator design in June 1990 from the University of Seville, Spain, and a second Ph.D deegree in analog neural network design in December 1991 from Texas A&M University , College-Station, USA.

Since June 1991, he has been a Tenured Scientist at the "Instituto de Microelectrónica deSevilla" , (IMSE-CNM-CSIC) Sevilla , Spain , which since 2015 is a Mixed Center between the University of Sevilla and the Spanish Research Council (CSIC). From September 1996 to August 1997, he was on sabbatical stay at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Johns Hopkins University . During Spring 2002 he was Visiting Associate Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of Texas A&M University , College-Station, USA. In January 2003 he was promoted to Tenured Researcher, and in January 2004 to Full Professor. Since February 2018, he is the Director of the "Insitituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla".
He has been involved with circuit design for telecommunication circuits, VLSI emulators of biological neurons, VLSI neural based pattern recognition systems, hearing aids, precision circuit design for instrumentation equipment, VLSI transistor mismatch parameters characterization, and over the past 20 years has been deeply involved with neuromorphic spiking circuits and systems, with strong emphasis on vision and exploiting nanoscale memristive devices for learning. He is co-founder of two start-ups, Prophesee SA (www.prophesee.ai) and GrAI-Matter-Labs SAS (www.graimatterlabs.ai), both on neuromorphic hardware.
Dr. Linares-Barranco was corecipient of the 1997 IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems Best Paper Award for the paper "A Real-Time Clustering Microchip Neural Engine", and of the 2000 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Darlington Award for the paper "A General Translinear Principle for Subthreshold MOS Transistors". He organized the 1995 Nips Post-Conference Workshop "Neural Hardware Engineering ". From July 1997 until June 1999 he has been Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part II , and from January 1998 until December 2009 he was also Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks . Since April 2010 he is Associate Editor for the new journal "Frontiers in Neuromorphic Engineering", as part of the open access "Frontiers in Neuroscience" journal series (http://www.frontiersin.org/). Since Jan. 2021 he is Specialty Chief Editor of "Frontiers in Neuromorphic Engineering".
He is co-author of the book "Adaptive Resonance Theory Microchips ". He was Chief Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks   Special Issue on 'Hardware Neural Networks Implementations '. He is an IEEE Fellow since January 2010. He is listed among the Stanford top 2% most world-wide cited scientist in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (top 0.62% world-wide, 8th in Spain, 2nd in Andalucía, 1st in CSIC).