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Capturing Nature’s Wonder: SmartNets’ PhD candidate, August Paula. Wins Top Honors in 2024 Royal Society Photography Competition

August Paula, PhD candidate of SmartNets project, has achieved top honors in the 2024 Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition, winning the coveted “Overall Winner” award. The photograph—captured via a drone piloted by August—beautifully illustrates the intricate predator-prey dynamics between sharks and …

SmartNet Researchers Participate in the Bernstein Conference 2024

The Bernstein Conference took place from September 29 to October 2, 2024. This year, several researchers from the SmartNet project attended, contributing to discussions and sharing their latest findings with the broader scientific community.

One highlight of the conference was …

Successful 6th Edition of the Dutch Brain Olympiad

On February 12th, 2024, the Dutch Brain Olympiad (Nederlandse Hersenolympiade) took place successfully. This event brings together secondary school students across the Netherlands to learn about neuroscience and participate in a knowledge competition.
SmartNets researchers, Dr. Fleur Zeldenrust and Tousif Jamal …

BrainBee reader on Computational Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence

We are proud to announce the first draft of the BrainBee reader on Computational Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence. It can be found here: https://hersenolympiade.nl/en/werkgroep-computational-neuroscience-en-ai/

The team of early-career researchers, with SmartNets’ own Tousif Jamal, Nishant Joshi and Nicolas Rault, worked very hard …

Iain Couzin in a Dutch documentary about how we try to understand swarms
Fleur Zeldenrust comparing brains and computers.