Advisory Board

Prof. Dr. Henry Markram is the Director of the Human Brain Project ( previously Blue Brain Project), which he founded in 2005. He began his research career in South Africa in the early 1980s, later moving to Israel and then to the EPFL, where he founded the Brain Mind Institute in 2002. Since the start of his career, he has focused on neural microcircuitry, applying a broad range of anatomical, physiological, biophysical and molecular techniques, and pioneering the multi-neuron patch-clamp approach. His best-known discoveries are the principles of Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity (STDP), Redistribution of Synaptic Efficacy (RSE), and Long-Term Microcircuit Plasticity (LTMP). He has worked with theoreticians to develop the concept of "liquid computing", a novel technique for handling real time continuous input to recurrent neural networks. He has also been active in autism research, a field in which he has co-developed the "Intense World Theory of Autism”. He is currently working on the design of the Human Brain Project – the successor to the Blue Brain Project.

Beat D. Wyser is an online marketing expert, specialised in search engine optimization, social media marketing and communication trends.  After completing his studies at the University of St. Gallen, he was involved in learning many new technologies and  has worked for different companies as  e-business consultant.  In 1998, he started his own consulting company through which  he was responsible in the last few years, for different online projects of Swiss Post, like www.swisspost.ch/counter.

At the moment,  he works with a new foresight company,  which offers innovation tools,  methodologies and know-how for strategic foresight projects.  Beat D.  Wyser is the author of several e-business books,  the newest one being on  Search Engine Marketing & optimization (SEO).  He is a visiting lecturer at some Swiss universities of applied science and also a logistics consultant  for GS1, The Swiss Logistic Association.