Professor Gustavo Deco (ICREA; Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) leads the Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience Group at the Center for Brain and Cognition. Gustavo has pioneered whole-brain computational modeling, providing a causal understanding of how distributed brain networks generate cognition, health and disease, and states like anesthesia, psychedelics, and meditation. In 1987 he received his PhD in Physics for his thesis on Relativistic Atomic Collisions. From 1990 to 2003, he lead the Computational Neuroscience Group at Siemens Corporate Research Center in Munich, Germany. He obtained in 1997 his Habilitation (maximal academical degree in Germany) in Computer Science (Dr. rer. nat. habil.) at the Technical University of Munich for his thesis on Neural Learning. In 2001, he received his third PhD, now in Psychology, at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich.
