Prof. Dr. Hans Ekkehard Plesser

Professor in Informatics
Faculty Research Committee Chair
Department Head Data Science
Faculty of Science and Technology
Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Mail PO Box 5003, N-1432 Ås            President, NEST Initiative
Office TF kvartalet, Drøbakveien 31, Room TF2-327B Visiting Scientist, INM-6, Jülich Research Centre
Phone +47 67231560
Email hans.ekkehard.plesser@nmbu.no
Profiles Github, Google Scholar

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News

12.11.2024 Preprint submitted: H.-J. Jiang, J. Aćimović, T. Manninen, I. Ahokainen, J. Stapmanns, M. Lehtimäki, M. Diesmann, S. J. van Albada, H. E. Plesser, and M.-L. Linne.
Modeling neuron-astrocyte interactions in neural networks using distributed simulation.
bioRxiv, 2024. DOI 10.1101/2024.11.11.622953.
23.10.2024 Paper published: H. E. Plesser
Commentary: Accelerating spiking neural network simulations with PymoNNto and PymoNNtorch.
Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 18:1446620, 2024. DOI 10.3389/fninf.2024.1446620.
03.09.2024 Teaching DAT320 Sequential and Time Series Data Analysis together with Kristian Liland.
05.08.2024 Back on deck at NMBU as professor and department head after my sabbatical. I now also serve as chair of the faculty's research committee.
02.08.2024 NEST 3.8 is released.
17./18.06.2024 The annual virtual NEST Conference has become a well-established tradition.
05.06.2024 Invited lecture on 70 Years of Spiking Network Simulations: Past, Present, Perspectives at the Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
12.04.2024 NEST 3.7 is released.
03./04.04.2024 On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the publication of the Potjans-Diesmann cortical microcircuit model, I organized a two-day workshop Building on Models: Experiences from a Decade with the Microcircuit model at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg for Cultures of Research together with Markus Diesmann.
21.02.2024 Invited lecture on 70 Years of Spiking Network Simulations: Past, Present, Perspectives at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany.
24.01.2024 Guest lecture on 70 Years of Spiking Network Simulations: Past, Present, Perspectives at the Champaliamaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.
09.01.2024 Teaching Networks of simplified neurons and tutoring on use of NEST, NEST Desktop and NESTML at the LASCON IX, the ninth Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience, in São Paulo.
30.09.2023 After 10 exciting years, the Human Brain Project came to its conclusion today. EBRAINS will carry on its legacy as a research infrastructure.
25.09.2023 NEST 3.6 is released.
06.09.2023 Starting my stay as Senior Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg for Cultures of Research at RWTH Aachen while on sabbatical leave from NMBU.