EBRAINS appoints new National Node Board Chair

Trygve Leergaard steps up to chair the EBRAINS National Node Board (NNB), to coordinate activities and services provided by EBRAINS National Nodes and support the operation and development of the EBRAINS research infrastructure.

Leergaard obtained a MD at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, in 1996, and a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Oslo in 2000, combining axonal tract tracing and 3D reconstruction techniques to study spatial organizing patterns in brain stem neural networks. As a co-PI of the Neural Systems Laboratory at the University of Oslo, he has contributed to the development of the EBRAINS Data & Knowledge services and rodent brain atlas services as part of the Human Brain Project and EBRAINS 2.0. As partner in the Norwegian Brain Initiative (NORBRAIN), and head of the Norwegian EBRAINS node, he coordinates the establishment of workflows for organizing and sharing advanced structural and functional experimental data via EBRAINS.

The list of NNB Members is shown below. Prof. Cezary Mazurek and Ms. Amaryllis Raouzaiou were recently appointed to the NNB, representing the Polish and Greek Nodes, respectively.

• Trygve Leergaard - Norwegian Node Chair

• Jeanette Kotaleski - Swedish Node

• Francesco Pavone - Italian Node

• Jean François Mangin - French Node

• Paolo Carloni - German Node

• Cezary Mazurek - Polish Node

• Amaryllis Raouzaiou - Greek Node