Michele MIGLIORE
Biography
Senior Associate, Institute of Biophysics of the Italian National. Research Council (Palermo). D.Phil. in Physics (1980, University of Palermo, Italy). He has been Research Director of the Italian National Research Council (1983-2024), Director of the Palermo section of the Institute of Biophysics (2015-2017), Visiting Professor of Computational Neuroscience at the University of Rome La Sapienza (Italy, 2018-2023), Visiting Professor of Cybernetics at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics of the University of Palermo (Italy, 2000-2018), and Visiting Scientist at the Department of Neuroscience of the Yale University School of Medicine (New Haven, USA, 2000-2020). His lab is involved in modelling realistic neurons and networks, synaptic integration processes, and plasticity mechanisms. The main long-term goal is to understand the emergence of higher brain functions and dysfunctions from cellular processes, implementing new tools and using state of the art simulation environments on different supercomputer systems.
