Armando Romani

Armando Romani

Armando Romani is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Group Leader of the Circuits team within the Simulation Neuroscience Division.

Armando joined Blue Brain to work on a biophysically detailed model of the hippocampus. The hippocampus plays a key role in memory formation, spatial navigation, and other fundamental cognitive functions.
Before moving to Blue Brain, Armando spent two years as a collaborator at the Laboratory of Computational Embodied Neuroscience, group leader Dr. Gianluca Baldassarre, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council (Rome, Italy).

Prior to that, he was a PhD student at the ‘Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic Plasticity’ laboratory, group leader Dr. Hélène Marie, European Brain Research Institute, Rita Levi-Montalcini Foundation (Rome, Italy).

Armando has a degree in Biology from the University ‘Roma Tre’, Italy and a PhD in Neuroscience from the University ‘Tor Vergata’, Rome, Italy.