The Brain Simulation Lab celebrated the summer last Friday 01.08 with a small party and some beach volleyball! We had a great time together and wish everyone a great summer break.

Missed the latest Meet-the-Data @HealthResearch webinar? Catch up now with the full replay of Prof. Petra Ritter and Dr. Michael Schirner's insightful presentation on the EBRAINS Health Data Cloud, a cutting-edge platform advancing secure, GDPR-compliant neuroscience research across Europe.

On July 9, 2025, Prof. Petra Ritter

We congratulate our former lab member Patrik Bey on the successful defense of his PhD, "Ermöglichung Netzwerkbasierter Gehirnsimulationen für Patientenpopulationen mit Pathologien" on June 10th. Patrik now holds a position at UCL in London, UK. We wish him all the best in his future endeavours!

Brain City Berlin recently interview Dr. Petra Ritter about the TEF-Health Project. The interview in German can be read here. You can find an English version of the interview here.

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Professor Petra Ritter was recently interviewed for the SWR Wissen Podcast (in German). You can listen to the podcast here!

Beim Zahnarzt ersetzt eine 3D-Simulation des Kiefers die unbeliebten Zahnabdrücke, Hologramme des Herzens oder virtuelle Gehirnsimulationen unterst

Congratulations to lab member Dominik Koller, who recently defended his PhD defense and received the highest grade, summa cum laude!

Dominik's thesis was, 'The role of structural connectivity gradients in cortical wave direction and frequency gradients'.

You can read the associated paper, 'Human connectome topology directs cortical traveling waves and shapes frequency gradients' in [Natur

We are excited to announce that lab member Maria Luise da Costa Zemsch was recently on the Podcast zu Langlebigkeit! The topic of the podcast was ketamine as an antidepressant – a topic at the core of Luise's research at Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

The podcast explored:- The limitations of conventional antidepressants- Biological/psychological roots