Sandra Diaz new Member of the Bernstein Network Steering Committee

Dr. Sandra Diaz was recently elected to the Steering Committee of the Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience. The election took place during the network’s General Assembly on 30 September 2025.

The Bernstein Network connects experimental and theoretical scientists. It comprises more than 200 research groups and 450 individual scientists from all over the world who combine experimental neuroscientific approaches with theoretical models and computer simulations. It was launched in 2004 through a major funding initiative of the (former) German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) which aimed at advancing the transfer of theoretical knowledge to clinical and technical applications.

Since its foundation in 2013, the JSC’s Simulation and Data Lab Neuroscience (SDLN) provides its expertise in simulation and data analysis technologies to the Network as “Bernstein Facility for High Performance Simulation and Data Analysis”. With its specific focus on leveraging HPC for neuroscience research, the SDLN plays a key role in making HPC available to the neuroscience community. For many neuroscience labs with little or no experience in using HPC, the use of HPC opens up unprecedented possibilities of asking and answering a multitude of new and previously unimaginable research questions.

Sandra joined the JSC in 2014, where she works at the interface between high-performance computing and neuroscience, doing methodological research and providing support to domain scientists. Her research focus is on high performance computing, simulation of brain dynamics and plasticity at different scales, as well as optimization, which was also the topic of her PhD thesis. Since 2023 she is the scientific leader of the SDLN.

More information: https://bernstein-network.de/en/network/committees/

Contact: Sandra Diaz