Hello,
I am Menna an undergraduate Medical student from Egypt. I had little knowledge about computational neuroscience 2 months ago then l have attended NMA which made me interested to learn more about this field. Thank you for creating this portal.
Best wishes!
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Welcome @assergazina. Iām myself not working on AI, but @dan might have a book suggestion. If not, maybe open a topic about it in the #science channel? Also have a look at the topic Pattern recognition in Spiking Neural Nets using Brian2 in the #projects channel.
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Thank you, Mr. Marcel, for your reference.
If you mean training in a machine learning sense, you should start here:
Otherwise, any computational neuroscience resource that talks about STDP etc. would be good. Some free ones available on my website:
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Hi ! I am Ramapati Patra ,from National Institute of Technology,Durgapur,India.I am a phd student,working on spiking neural network domain.During the study of SNN related paper,I have come to know about BRIAN2 simulator,I have been gone trough Brian2ās materials and trying to learn Brian2 simulator function well manner as it is very usefull and flexible.As I am a newcomer to BRIAN2 ,hence I have some query regarding some basic functionalities of BRIAN2,could anyone please advice me in which section I can put my query to clear my doubts??Thanks in advance.
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Hi and welcome to the Brian forum!
If it is a question about Brian functionality (āhow do I do X with Brianā), then please put it into the Support category. If it is a more general modeling question (āhow can I model Y?ā), please put it into Science, Projects, and Showcases.
Thank you so much sir.
Hello, my name is Mik Schutte, I am a neuroscience master student at the University of Amsterdam. Currently, my internship has taken me to the Donders institute where I will develop a dynamic clamp (current clamp dependent on membrane voltage) protocol for measuring the mutual information. Iāve been playing around with Brain2 for some weeks now and have to state my congratulations on the package youāve built.
I highly look forward to asking bothersome questions and answering them too.
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Thanks a lot for setting up this forum! Iām sure it will be extremely helpful as more and more people jump in and participate.
So hi everyone! I am Julian, I grew up in Sevilla (Spain), where I also did my bachelorās in Robotics Engineering. A couple of years ago I moved to Groningen (Netherlands) to pursue a masterās in Artificial Intelligence.
It was during my stay here that I got interested in the field of neuromorphic engineering and I chose to do my master thesis on that topic. I only started my thesis a couple of months ago, and thatās how I came across the Brian simulator and what brought me here today!
The (provisional) title of my thesis is āAudiovisual Multimodal Learning with Spiking Neural Networks and Event-Based Sensorsā. Therefore, I am especially interested in how to use different types of input for the networks and how to play around with its connectivity. Hopefully, someday Iāll have to deal with how to interface things with hardware, and to that end, making things computationally efficient is also on my agenda.
See you around! 
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Hi everybody !
My name is Brad Niepceron, Iām a french PhD Student at University of Picardie Jules Vernes. I initially worked developing and using Deep Learning models for medical image analysis but got hooked and really really interested by computational neurosciences while chatting with my thesis supervisor. I started investigating spiking models to complete my work this year and got into using Brian2.
Other than that, I also have an interest for Cloud Computing and Devops practices 
Have a great day !
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Hi!
Iām Rodrigo Siqueira, a biologist by trade and a PhD in Cybernetics by the University of Reading working a research associate at the Active Touch Laboratory @ University of Sheffield (Active Touch Lab - Team) on the newest senior software engineer at the AMRC North West, also part of the University of Sheffield, in the UK. Currently, Iām developing footsim, a computational model of the tactile afferents on the foot sole ( Talk: FootSim: Modeling tactile responses from the sole of the foot - YouTube ) and utilising Brian to model behavioural experiments to try to understand how general intelligence evolves in collaboration with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the UTEC in Peru.
As always,
Enjoy!
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Hello everyone,
I am post-doc in electronics eng. Although itās not my main area of expertise, I like working with AI - recently I got shined by bio-inspired neural networks, and I started using Brian2 to make my hands dirty with experiments
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Hi everyone !
I am Shavika Rastogi, a dual award PhD student in Neuromorphic Olfaction at International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems in Western Sydney University, Australia and Biocomputation Research Group in University of Hertfordshire, UK. I did my Masters in the field of Neuroscience with Computational Neuroscience as my focus area from University of Freiburg, Germany. I have done my undergrad in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Mody University, Lakshmangarh (India).
I am currently using Brian2 for modelling of olfactory bulb. I have used NEST simulator before, but nit Brian. As it is my first time with Brian, I am facing some issues like dimensionality mismatch in differential equations. I will be grateful for any help provided in this group.
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Hi Everyone. I am Yavuz. Iām interested in Computational Neuroscience for 4 months. Iāve started with Gerstnerās Neuronal Dynamics book. I finished first chapter and than began to understand software basics. Before that I never used Python and Brian. Following the bookās instructions and Brian website, especially Brian recommends to learn Python first, then continue to Brian documents. However given the enourmous structure of Pythonās universe, how much do I have to know about Python? When will I realize that Iām ready to learn Brian? I couldnāt find any advice section in this forum. Also I should add that I come from Matlab knowledge.
Thank you. Best regards.
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Hi @winterdrops and welcome 
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You donāt necessarily need a lot of Python knowledge to use Brian, the way to describe and run models in Python should be quite understandable on its own. Give the tutorials a try and see whether things make sense. Python knowledge becomes important mostly when you either want to simulate models in more complex settings (parameter exploration, fitting parameters, interface to switch between different model variants, ā¦), or to analyse/plot data. For Brian itself, knowing how to create new objects, and how to call functions and methods on objects should be mostly enough + some basic knowledge of how list/array indexing works in Python. Basically all numerical analysis code in Python is built around the numpy library, so some familiarity with it will be necessary sooner or later. The documentation has a guide for matlab users: NumPy for MATLAB users ā NumPy v1.23 Manual For plotting, the standard library (also used in all Brian examples) is matplotlib: https://matplotlib.org/
Hope that gets you started!
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Hello Everyone! Iām Sorin, one of the fortunate individuals accepted for GSOC2024 projects on Brian. For my project, Iāll be packaging Brianās unit system and integrating new features from modules like matplotlib, astropi, and quantiphy.
A little about me: I am student at the Politehnic University of Bucharest in the Automatic Control and Computer Science programe and my passions are AI, especially deep learning models, cybersecurity and I also like to explore more the world of neuroinformatics and computational neuroscience. I am happy to meet you all and possibly work with you in the future 
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Hello everyone!
I am thrilled to announce that Iāve been selected for the āImproving Brianās Markdown Supportā project under GSOC 2024!
We have already made significant progress on the proof of concept, and I am eager to dive deeper and push the boundaries.
A bit about me:
I graduated with a degree in Information Technology in 2023, and I am currently an ML Engineer at Jio Platforms Limited. This is my first time into the open-source world, and I canāt wait to collaborate with this amazing community of researchers and experienced developers. Iām particularly excited to learn from your problem-solving approaches and gain valuable insights from your expertise.
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Hello!
Iām Alex, an undergraduate from Romania at the Faculty of Cybernetics and Informatics. I am an enthusiast of ANNs and stumbled upon Brian a few weeks ago and fell in love with it. I find it much easier to work with than other sims. I also started a Blog on a side-project relating to Brian applying it to economic studies for my course in system engineering
Love to everyone (āoā)äŗŗ(ā-ā)/
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Hi @mstimberg and hi everyone 
Iām Vishal Kumar Gowda, a Computer Science student from India with a strong interest in open-source development, neuroscience, and healthcare technology. Iām especially fascinated by how computational tools like Brian2 connect programming with understanding the brain.
Iāve recently been exploring Brian2 in depth ā going through the codebase, running it locally, and understanding how model equations are parsed and processed internally. Iām genuinely very interested in this project, particularly the Code Editor Support (LSP / VS Code) work. The combination of TypeScript, parsing, asynchronous systems, and improving developer experience aligns strongly with my core interests.
Beyond this, Iāve also conceptualized an AI/ML-based idea focused on detecting abnormal growth of body cells, which strengthened my interest in combining computation with biological and medical applications. Thatās one of the reasons Brian2 deeply resonates with me.
Iām preparing seriously for GSoC 2026 and would love to start contributing early. Iām not just interested in contributing for GSoC ā I truly want to stay involved with the project long-term and grow as a contributor within the community.
If there are beginner-friendly issues or areas where I can help, I would really appreciate some guidance.
Looking forward to learning and collaborating with you all!
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Hi everyone, I am Saksham, currently exploring the Brian code editor. Although Iām new to Open Source, I loved the idea of this project, which makes equations readable as a developer. I am looking forward to the team vision.
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