Felix Schuermann
General Project Manager
Human Brian project
Switzerland

Biography
Felix Schürmann is adjunct professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, co-director of the Blue Brain Project and involved in several research challenges of the European Human Brain Project – especially simulation and high performance computing. He studied physics at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, supported by the German National Academic Foundation. Later, as a Fulbright Scholar, he obtained his Master's degree (M.S.) in Physics from the State University of New York, Buffalo, USA, under the supervision of Richard Gonsalves. He pursued and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, under the supervision of Karlheinz Meier.

Abstract
The Human Brain Project

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Today, for the first time, modern ICT has brought these goals within sight. The goal of the Human Brain Project, an EU FET Flagship project with more than 100 European and international research institutes, is to translate this vision into reality, using ICT as a catalyst for a global collaborative effort to understand the human brain, its diseases and to derive novel computing technologies. The talk will give an overview of the project and its six ICT platforms, which are at the center of the HBP strategy.