Matthew Larkum

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Matthew Larkum has been Professor of Neurobiology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2011. He previously worked at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research and at the University of Bern where he completed his PhD. Larkum’s research focuses on the functioning of the cerebral cortex and asks questions like what makes us intelligent or how does conscious perception work? Having published a line of highly influential papers in journals like Cell, Science and Nature Neuroscience, Larkum’s work has been supported by the Human Brain Project (HBP), European Research Council (ERC) Horizon 2020, Einstein Center Neurosciences (ECN) and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). He received the Robert Bing Prize from the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences in 2010