Felix Schürmann

Felix Schürmann is the General Project Manager of the Blue Brain Project and a scientist at the Brain Mind Institute at the EPFL. He started his studies of physics at the University of Heidelberg, Germany supported by the German National Academic Foundation. 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. During this time he was a Fulbright Scholar. His master thesis dealt with the foundations of computing: the simulation of quantum computing. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Heidelberg, Germany under the supervision of Karlheinz Meier in 2005. The focus of his work was on alternative approaches to computing: Using mixed-signal VLSI he co-designed an efficient implementation of a neural network in hardware and was the first to adopt "Liquid Computing" in hardware.