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Michele Nardin

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People / Michele NardinHermundstad LabMichele Nardin
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Theory Fellow
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Why do we need a brain that consumes much of our energy budget? And, above all, what is it that drives behavior?

Neuroscience has been trying to describe behavior as a mind-centered activity. But minds are not disembodied agents. From an evolutionary perspective, bodies preceded brains and consume most energy resources. Additionally, the extensive connections between the brain and the body suggest that maintaining physiological balance is one of the nervous system's key roles.

The main questions that drive my research deal with the formalization of behavior and physiological balance within information theoretical frameworks, the effect of internal needs on behavior and brain processing, and the transfer of information across the brain.

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Biography

My university studies were in mathematics with a focus on analysis, measure theory, and probability theory. Afterward, I decided to switch gears and started a Ph.D. in computational and systems neuroscience in the lab of Jozsef Csicsvari, where I studied the encoding of spatial information in the hippocampus from an information theory perspective, the communication between assemblies across the hippocampus and neocortex, and the effects of learning on the spatial representations of hippocampal and entorhinal cortical cells. 

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Education

Ph.D., Systems and Computational Neuroscience, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
MSc, Mathematics, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila (UNIVAQ) and Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI)
BSc, Mathematics, Università degli Studi di Trento (UNITN)
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