Marcel Stimberg

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Research

I am a software research engineer working on tools for neural simulations, as well as supporting the team in their work on neural data analysis (spike sorting) and electrophysiology. My main focus is the development of Brian 2, the most recent version of the Brian simulator. This simulator combines an easy-to-use and flexible high-level syntax (models are described in Python scripts using mathematical notation for the equations governing the model dynamics) with an efficient simulation framework based on a modular approach that transparently generates, compiles and executes code.

Publications

• Denis Alevi, Marcel Stimberg, Henning Sprekeler, Klaus Obermayer, Moritz Augustin, 2022. Brian2CUDA: Flexible and Efficient Simulation of Spiking Neural Network Models on GPUs, Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, volume 16. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• Romain D Cazé, Marcel Stimberg, 2021. Neurons with dendrites can perform linearly separable computations with low resolution synaptic weights [version 3; peer review: 3 approved], F1000Research, volume 9. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• Marcel Stimberg, Dan F. M. Goodman, Thomas Nowotny, 2020. Brian2GeNN: accelerating spiking neural network simulations with graphics hardware, Sci Rep, volume 10. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• Marcel Stimberg, Romain Brette, Dan FM Goodman, 2019. Brian 2, an intuitive and efficient neural simulator, eLife (Frances K Skinner, ed.), volume 8. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• Marcel Stimberg, Dan F. M. Goodman, Romain Brette, Maurizio De Pittà, 2019. Modeling Neuron--Glia Interactions with the Brian 2 Simulator, Chapter in Computational Glioscience (Maurizio De Pittà, Hugues Berry, eds.), Springer. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• Inga Blundell, Romain Brette, Thomas A. Cleland, Thomas G. Close, Daniel Coca, Andrew P. Davison, Sandra Diaz Pier, Carlos Fernandez Musoles, Padraig Gleeson, Dan F. M. Goodman, Michael Hines, Michael W. Hopkins, Pramod Kumbhar, David R. Lester, Bóris Marin, Abigail Morrison, Eric Müller, Thomas Nowotny, Alexander Peyser, Dimitri Plotnikov, Paul Richmond, Andrew Rowley, Bernhard Rumpe, Marcel Stimberg, Alan Barry Stokes, Adam Tomkins, Guido Trensch, Marmaduke Woodman, Jochen Martin Eppler, 2018.Code generation in computational neuroscience: a review of tools and techniques, Front. Neuroinform., volume 12. [bibtex] [doi]
• Pierre Yger, Giulia LB Spampinato, Elric Esposito, Baptiste Lefebvre, Stéphane Deny, Christophe Gardella, Marcel Stimberg, Florian Jetter, Guenther Zeck, Serge Picaud, Jens Duebel, Olivier Marre, 2018. A spike sorting toolbox for up to thousands of electrodes validated with ground truth recordings in vitro and in vivo, eLife (David Kleinfeld, ed.), eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd, volume 7. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• Romain Cazé, Marcel Stimberg, Benoît Girard, 2018. [Re] Non-additive coupling enables propagation of synchronous spiking activity in purely random networks, ReScience, volume 4. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• Nicolas P Rougier, Konrad Hinsen, Frédéric Alexandre, Thomas Arildsen, Lorena Barba, Fabien CY Benureau, C Titus Brown, Pierre de Buyl, Ozan Caglayan, Andrew P Davison, Marc André Delsuc, Georgios Detorakis, Alexandra K Diem, Damien Drix, Pierre Enel, Benoît Girard, Olivia Guest, Matt G Hall, Rafael Neto Henriques, Xavier Hinaut, Kamil S Jaron, Mehdi Khamassi, Almar Klein, Tiina Manninen, Pietro Marchesi, Dan McGlinn, Christoph Metzner, Owen L Petchey, Hans Ekkehard Plesser, Timothée Poisot, Karthik Ram, Yoav Ram, Etienne Roesch, Cyrille Rossant, Vahid Rostami, Aaron Shifman, Joseph Stachelek, Marcel Stimberg, Frank Stollmeier, Federico Vaggi, Guillaume Viejo, Julien Vitay, Anya Vostinar, Roman Yurchak, Tiziano Zito, 2017. Sustainable computational science: the ReScience initiative, PeerJ Computer Science, volume 3. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• Pierre Yger, Marcel Stimberg, Romain Brette, 2015. Fast Learning with Weak Synaptic Plasticity, The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, volume 35. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• Marcel Stimberg, Dan F. M. Goodman, Victor Benichoux, Romain Brette, 2014. Equation-oriented specification of neural models for simulations, Frontiers in neuroinformatics, volume 8. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• Marcel Stimberg, Klaus Wimmer, Robert Martin, Lars Schwabe, Jorge Mariño, James Schummers, David C. Lyon, Mriganka Sur, Klaus Obermayer, 2009. The operating regime of local computations in primary visual cortex, Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), volume 19. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• James Schummers, Beau Cronin, Klaus Wimmer, Marcel Stimberg, Robert Martin, Klaus Obermayer, Konrad Koerding, Mriganka Sur, 2007. Dynamics of orientation tuning in cat v1 neurons depend on location within layers and orientation maps, Frontiers in neuroscience, volume 1. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]