Alessandro Treves#
| Membership Number: | 5887 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Affiliated section(s): | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://people.sissa.it/~ale/limbo.html |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7246-5673 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 - present Full professor at SISSA in the Cognitive Neuroscience Sector, from 2012 within the Area of Neuroscience
- 2016 - 2018 Coordinator of the Area of Neuroscience at SISSA
- 2013 - 2015 Director of the Master in Complex Actions (course in high-tech entrepreneurship) at SISSA
- 2011 - 2013 On leave to serve as Counsellor for Scientific Affairs at the Embassy of Italy, Tel Aviv
- 2003 - present Long-term visiting professor at NTNU, Trondheim, currently with the Centre for Neural Computation
- 2005 - 2007 Elected board member, NENS (School Committee of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies)
- 2000 - 2006 Associate professor at SISSA in the Cognitive Neuroscience Sector
- 2002 - 2006 (and again 2014-2018) Elected councilor, Jewish Community of Trieste
- 1992 - 2000 Research fellow at SISSA, first in the Biophysics then Cognitive Neuroscience Sector
- 1989 - 1992 Postdoc at the University of Oxford, in the Dept of Expl Psychology, laboratory of Prof ET Rolls
Fields of Scholarship
- Hippocampus
- Phase transitions to the faculty of language
- Attractor neural networks
- Evolution of the nervous systems
- Spatial cognition
- Statistical physics approaches to brain function
Honours and Awards
- 1996 - present proud to have mentored PhD students who have then flourished elsewhere, including
- Stefano Panzeri (PhD 1996, IIT Genova and Trento)
- Francesco P Battaglia (1998, Radboud Nijmegen)
- Yasser Roudi (2005, NTNU-Kavli Center Trondheim; Kandel Prize 2015)
- Emilio Kropff (2007, Leloir Inst Buenos Aires; ICTP Prize 2017)
- Athena Akrami (2010, UCL)
- Chol Jun Kang (2017, Kim Il-Sung Univ Pyongyang) and, remotely, Mohammad Herzallah, leader of the Palestinian Neuroscience Initiative
- 2018 Only invited neuroscientist at the Kim Il Sung Univ Intl Confer on Devel Science & Human Welfare, Pyongyang
- 2010 Ideator, convenor (and co-organizer with O Gűntűrkűn and A Sadoyan) the Ararat Memory meeting, Yerevan
- 2008 Elected to the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, Trondheim
