Paweł Świeboda
Paweł Świeboda
As the Human Brain Project (HBP) Flagship enters its third phase under Horizon 2020, Mr Paweł Świeboda was nominated by HBP’s Stakeholder Board to guide the consortium in the field of multidisciplinary brain research. His assignment started on 17 June 2020, taking over from EPFL’s Vice President for Research Prof. Andreas Mortens.
Paweł Świeboda is also the CEO of EBRAINS AISBL, an association of HBP partners created to drive the project and ensure the development and long-term sustainability of HBP’s EBRAINS research infrastructure. Prior to joining EBRAINS and HBP, Paweł Świeboda was deputy head of the Commission’s in-house think tank European Political Strategy Centre.
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Background
The Human Brain Project is one of the FET Flagships financed under the Commission’s Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme. The project is a large-scale initiative for boosting efforts in neuroscience and includes the design and building of EBRAINS, a research infrastructure based on advanced information and communications technology. The aim of the project is to help advance neuroscience, medicine and computing to enable a better understanding of the brain and its diseases, and to develop new digital tools inspired by the brain, such as artificial intelligence systems or robotics. This 10-year project began in 2013. It employs over 800 scientists in more than 100 universities, hospitals and research centres across Europe and countries associated with the EU funding programme Horizon 2020.