Public evening lecture by Dr. Andy Thomas (Dresden University of Technology)

Nature has long been used as a model for technology. However, so-called bionics does not always work. Today's computers have a completely different structure to the brain, which is why they can perform certain tasks much better than the brain. Synapses play a decisive role in learning processes. This lecture will present the processes that take place in a biological system during learning and show what an electronic nerve cell could look like.

Andy Thomas studied physics at Bielefeld University from 1995 to 2000 and obtained his doctorate in solid state physics in 2003. He then spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge (USA). He returned to Bielefeld University in 2005 and habilitated in 2009 on the topic of "Materials for spin-polarized tunnelling." Andy Thomas has been a group leader at the Institute for Solid State and Materials Research in Dresden since 2015.

Moderation: Professor Dr. Markus Münzenberg