Dr. Petra Ritter at The Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics
The Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics presents Dr. Petra Ritter for this month’s Speaker Series on Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 11-12pm EST.
TOPIC: The Virtual Brain Cloud
SPEAKER: Dr. Petra Ritter heads the Brain Simulation Section at the Dept. of Neurology, Charité and Berlin Institute of Health. She is a full professor for Brain Simulation. At Charité, Prof Ritter achieved her Medical Doctor (MD) in 2000, approbation to practice medicine in 2002, her PhD in Neuroscience in 2004, her habilitation in Experimental Neurology in 2010 and was appointed a lifetime professor at Charité in 2017. Prof Ritter completed Medical Internships at Harvard Medical School, Mount Sinai Medical School, New York, UCSD, La Jolla and UCLA, Los Angeles in 1999 - 2000. Her research focus is on integrating neuroimaging and computational neuroscience to discover mechanisms of brain function and dysfunction. She has led local (Charité & BIH Virtual Research Environment), national (Bernstein Focus within the Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience), European (VirtualBrainCloud; Co-design Project The Virtual Brain in the EU Flagship HBP) and international neuroinformatics consortia (co-lead The Virtual Brain platform). She holds an ERC Consolidator grant and is engaged in several large-scale software projects. The project Virtual Brain Cloud contributes to the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud, by developing an open source reference research infrastructure for sensitive health data enabling personalized brain simulation in the Cloud.
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