Viktor K. Jirsa

Viktor K. Jirsa (born 27 June 1968) is a Czech-German physicist and computational neuroscientist whose work links large-scale brain modelling with brain imaging. He is Director of Research (DRCE) at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and heads the Institut de Neuroscience des Systèmes (INS UMR1106) at Inserm Aix-Marseille University. Since 2022 he serves as Chief Science Officer of the European digital neuroscience infrastructure EBRAINS.

Since the late 1990s, Jirsa's research focuses on how the human brain's function relates to network dynamics. He pioneered the integration of biologically realistic connectivity into human and rodent brain network models. Clinical applications of his large-scale brain modelling approach are widespread in diagnosis, understanding and therapy of epilepsy and psychiatry. Throughout his academic career Jirsa has played leading roles in personalized medicine and translational computational neuroscience within the Human Brain Project (HBP) and other large European initiatives. He is lead scientist of the open source neuroinformatics platform The Virtual Brain. Provided by Wikipedia