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Viktor K. Jirsa

German physicist and neuroscientist

Viktor K. Jirsa (born 27 June 1968) is a Czech-German physicist and computational neuroscientist whose work links large-scale brain modelling with brain imaging. He is Director of Research (DRCE) at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and heads the Institut de Neuroscience des Systèmes (INS UMR1106) at Inserm Aix-Marseille University.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Viktor K. Jirsa (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Jun 27, 1968.¹

About

Since 2022 he serves as Chief Science Officer of the European digital neuroscience infrastructure EBRAINS.

Since the late 1990s, Jirsa's research focuses on how the human brain's function relates to network dynamics. He pioneered the integration of biologically realistic connectivity into human and rodent brain network models. Clinical applications of his large-scale brain modelling approach are widespread in diagnosis, understanding and therapy of epilepsy and psychiatry. Throughout his academic career Jirsa has played leading roles in personalized medicine and translational computational neuroscience within the Human Brain Project (HBP) and other large European initiatives. He is lead scientist of the open source neuroinformatics platform The Virtual Brain.

From Wikipedia’s article on Viktor K. Jirsa, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

Aix-Marseille UniversityBoard member 2012 to now⁹

Early life and education

Date not recordedUniversity of Stuttgart³
Date not recordedUniversity of Manchester³

Jirsa was born in Prague, Czechia and grew up in Stuttgart, Germany. He studied elementary particle physics at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom where he obtained his Master of Science (M.Sc.) in 1991. He then combined philosophy with theoretical physics at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, earning a Diplom (Master's degree) in 1993, followed by a doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in applied mathematics/theoretical physics in 1996, under Hermann Haken. His postdoctoral work with J. A. Scott Kelso at the Florida Atlantic University (FAU) focused on brain and behavioral dynamics (1997-1998).

Academic career

In 1999 Jirsa started as assistant professor at the Florida Atlantic University and founded the Theoretical Neuroscience Group (TNG). From 2004 to 2005 he held the role of tenured Associate Professor of Physics of Complex Systems & Brain Sciences. In 2006 Jirsa was recruited as Director of Research for the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Marseille, France. In 2012 he co-founded the Institut de Neuroscience des Systèmes (INS, Aix-Marseille University) with neurologist Patrick Chauvel, becoming its director in 2014.

Jirsa was a work package leader and member of the Science and Infrastructure Board of the Human Brain Project before joining the management board of the non-profit successor organization EBRAINS as Chief Science Officer in 2022. In this role he guides the European efforts in digital neuroscience to translate multiscale brain models into clinical and industrial applications.

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Career

Occupation: physicist, neuroscientist.⁶

Since 2012Director, Aix-Marseille University^{4 5}
Date not recordedWorked at Florida Atlantic University⁴

Personal life

BornJun 27, 1968, Prague^{7 8}

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WikidataViktor K. Jirsa: education, on Wikidata
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WikidataViktor K. Jirsa: Worked at Florida Atlantic University, on Wikidata
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WikidataDirector, Aix-Marseille University, as reported by ORCID Public Data File 2023
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WikidataViktor K. Jirsa: place of birth, on Wikidata
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WikidataAix-Marseille University, Board member
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Wikimedia CommonsViktor K. Jirsa photo by Neurophys22, CC BY 4.0