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
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News

09.11.2025 Paper published: H. E. Plesser, A. P. Davison, M. Diesmann, T. Fukai, T. Gemmeke, P. Gleeson, J. C. Knight, T. Nowotny, A. René, O. Rhodes, A. C. Roque, J. Senk, T. Schwalger, T. Stadtmann, G. Tiddia, and S. J. van Albada.
Building on models—a perspective for computational neuroscience.
Cerebral Cortex, 35(11):bhaf295, November 2025.
ISSN 1460-2199. DOI 10.1093/cercor/bhaf295.
25.09.2025 NEST 3.9 is released.
19.09.2025 Paper published: H.-J. Jiang, J. Aćimović, T. Manninen, I. Ahokainen, J. Stapmanns, M. Lehtimäki, M. Diesmann, S. J. v Albada, H. E. Plesser, and M.-L. Linne.
Modeling neuron-astrocyte interactions in neural networks using distributed simulation.
PLOS Computational Biology, 21(9):e1013503, September 2025.
ISSN 1553-7358. DOI 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013503.
05.08.2025 Paper published: J.-E. W. Skaar, N. Haug, and H. E. Plesser.
A simplified model of NMDA-receptor-mediated dynamics in leaky integrate-and-fire neurons.
Journal of Computational Neuroscience.
DOI 10.1007/s10827-025-00911-8.
See the NEST documentation for examples.
17./18.06.2025 The annual virtual NEST Conference has become a well-established tradition.
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./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.