{"id":529,"date":"2025-05-11T16:50:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T16:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robustcircuit.flygen.org\/?page_id=529"},"modified":"2025-05-11T17:08:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T17:08:17","slug":"scientific-advisory-board","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/robustcircuit.flygen.org\/?page_id=529","title":{"rendered":"Scientific Advisory Board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>RobustCircuit <\/em><strong>Scientific Advisory Board<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/robustcircuit.flygen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/deBivort2023headshot_square_small.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/robustcircuit.flygen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/deBivort2023headshot_square_small.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/robustcircuit.flygen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/deBivort2023headshot_square_small.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/robustcircuit.flygen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/deBivort2023headshot_square_small.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/robustcircuit.flygen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/deBivort2023headshot_square_small.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Benjamin de Bivort, PhD<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Harvard University<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ben de Bivort is a Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and member of the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University. His research interests include 1) the mechanistic basis of behavioral variation in stochastic differences in neural circuits and 2) the application of computational ethology to interesting questions in insect evolution and ecology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/robustcircuit.flygen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/anna_small_1.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/robustcircuit.flygen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/anna_small_1.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/robustcircuit.flygen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/anna_small_1.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/robustcircuit.flygen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/anna_small_1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/robustcircuit.flygen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/anna_small_1.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Anna Levina, PhD<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">T\u00fcbingen University<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anna Levina is an Assistant Professor at the University of T\u00fcbingen, Germany, where she leads the research group Self-organization and Optimality in Neuronal Networks, funded by the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award of the Humboldt Foundation. Her research aims to uncover the computational principles underlying the organization of neuronal networks, using a range of modeling approaches\u2014from relating timescales and distance to criticality with computational function, to investigating how specific network states can emerge through synaptic plasticity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1002\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/robustcircuit.flygen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Clandinin-headshot_2023-square.jpg?fit=1002%2C1000&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/robustcircuit.flygen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Clandinin-headshot_2023-square.jpg?w=1002&amp;ssl=1 1002w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/robustcircuit.flygen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Clandinin-headshot_2023-square.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/robustcircuit.flygen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Clandinin-headshot_2023-square.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/robustcircuit.flygen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Clandinin-headshot_2023-square.jpg?resize=768%2C766&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thomas R. Clandinin, PhD<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stanford University<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thomas R. Clandinin, Ph.D., is the Shooter Family Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at Stanford University. Dr. Clandinin\u2019s work combines genetic approaches and neurophysiological measurements with analytical techniques adapted from systems neuroscience to determine how circuits process information.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons alignfull is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/robustcircuit.flygen.org\/?page_id=17\">Overview<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons alignfull is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/robustcircuit.flygen.org\/?page_id=2\">Team<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons alignfull is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/robustcircuit.flygen.org\/?page_id=16\">Projects<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons alignfull is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/robustcircuit.flygen.org\/?page_id=24\">Publications<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RobustCircuit Scientific Advisory Board Benjamin de Bivort, PhD Harvard University Ben de Bivort is a Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and member of the Center for Brain Science at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-529","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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