Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin

The Bernstein Center Berlin was founded in 2004 and addresses one of the most challenging questions in computational and cognitive neuroscience: "How is it possible that we can react to sensory stimuli with millisecond precision if intermediate processing elements - on the level of single synapses, single neurons, small networks and even large neural systems - vary significantly in their response to the same repeated stimulus?" In the first twelve years the Center was financially supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Since 2016 it is a joint research center of Charité, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin. The newly founded "Interdisciplinary Center Computational Neuroscience" (ICCN) of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is supporting the BCCN Berlin. The interdisciplinary research is executed furthermore by groups of the Freie Universität Berlin, Max-Delbrueck-Centrum, and the Universität Potsdam. It is part of the Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience (NNCN) and financially supported by the three partners Charité, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin.