Sean Hill (scientist)
| Sean Hill | |
|---|---|
| Born | Sean Lewis Hill USA |
| Residence | Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Nationality | USA, Switzerland |
| Institutions | EPFL |
| Alma mater | Hampshire College, University of Lausanne |
| Known for | Large-scale computer models of brain circuits, Simulations of different brain states (wakefulness, sleep, anesthesia, etc), Neuroinformatics |
Sean Lewis Hill is an American-Swiss neuroscientist and professor at the Blue Brain Project of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne located on the Campus Biotech in Geneva, Switzerland. He is known for the development of large-scale computational models of brain circuitry and neuroinformatics.
Hill was born in New Jersey, raised in Warren, Maine and attended Camden-Rockport High School. He graduated from Hampshire College with a degree in Computational Neuroscience and obtained his PhD from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
After working with Gerald Edelman and Giulio Tononi during his postdoctoral work in San Diego and Wisconsin, Hill joined the Computational Biology group at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. There he served as Project Manager for Computational Neuroscience on the Blue Brain Project from 2006-2008. He subsequently joined the EPFL Blue Brain team. Hill served as the Executive Director of the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility from 2011-2013 and as its Scientific Director from 2013-2016. He developed the core design of the neuroinformatics infrastructure of the EU Human Brain Project, led its development during its start-up phase, and in 2014 was co-director of the project.
In 2016, Hill is co-Director of Blue Brain, a Swiss brain initiative, and the Director of the Laboratory for the Neural Basis of Brain States. He leads the Neuroinformatics Division of Blue Brain and coordinates many of its collaborations.
Hill has developed a number of large-scale brain models and simulations, including the first large-scale model of the visual thalamocortical system of the cat which accurately replicates multi-scale electrophysiological phenomena during wakefulness and sleep. He has also co-led the Blue Brain's efforts to create digital reconstructions of neocortical microcircuitry.
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