European scientists meet in Zaragoza to show their progress in research on materials that mimic neurons
Zaragoza hosted the general meeting of the European Training Network MANIC (“Materials for Neuromorphic Circuits”). The meeting, in which researchers from different European countries participated, discussed the design of materials and devices that can replicate the conductivity, plasticity and self-organisation properties of brain neurons, so that they can function as networks of neurons and synapses.
These materials are expected to become key elements of a new generation of electronic devices that will be able to adapt to software and enable efficient learning, allowing a new form of computing that will be essential for the development of artificial intelligence.
This initiative, funded in 2019 with €4 million by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, within the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 framework programme, promotes the training of 15 pre-doctoral researchers in the development of new materials and technologies for neuromorphic computing. For 3 years, these young talents from MANIC receive specialised scientific-technical training thanks to an international and multidisciplinary consortium made up of 12 research groups and 11 European companies from the Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany and Belgium, and coordinated by the University of Groningen and IBM. Researchers from the Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón (INMA), a joint institute of the CSIC and the University of Zaragoza, are taking part: Dr. César Magén and Panagiotis Koutsogiannis (both from the CSIC), and Dr. José Ángel Pardo (from the University of Zaragoza).
22/11/2022
