Gustavo Deco
Gustavo Deco (* 1961 in Rosario, Argentinien) ist ein argentinisch-italienischer Neurowissenschaftler.
Deco ist Professor an der Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA, Barcelona) und Professor an der Universität Pompeu Fabra.
Er studierte Physik an der Universidad Nacional de Rosario (PhD 1987) und Informatik an der TU München (Habilitation 1997) sowie Psychologie an der LMU München (PhD 2001). Postdoc-Aufenthalte führten ihn an die Universität Bordeaux und an die Universität Gießen.
Er leitete von 1993 bis 2003 die Computational Neuroscience Group am Siemens Corporate Research Center in München.
Deco forscht auf dem Gebiet der Computational Neuroscience.
Auszeichnungen
- 2001: Inventor of the Year (Siemens World Wide Competition)
- 2024: Mitglied Academia Europaea
Schriften (Auswahl)
- G. Deco, D. Obradovic (1996): An Information-Theoretic Approach to Neural Computing, Springer Verlag, New York.
- G. Deco, B. Schürmann (2000): Information Dynamics: Foundations and Applications, Springer Verlag, New York.
- Rolls, E., & Deco, G. (2001): Computational neuroscience of vision. Oxford University Press.
- Deco, G., Jirsa, V. K., Robinson, P. A., Breakspear, M., & Friston, K. (2008): The dynamic brain: from spiking neurons to neural masses and cortical fields. PLoS computational biology, 4(8), e1000092.
- Deco, G., Jirsa, V., McIntosh, A. R., Sporns, O., & Kötter, R. (2009): Key role of coupling, delay, and noise in resting brain fluctuations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(25), 10302-10307.
- E. Rolls, G. Deco (2010): The Noisy Brain, Oxford University Press.
- Deco, G., Jirsa, V. K., & McIntosh, A. R. (2011): Emerging concepts for the dynamical organization of resting-state activity in the brain. Nature reviews neuroscience, 12(1), 43-56.
- Deco, G., & Jirsa, V. K. (2012): Ongoing cortical activity at rest: criticality, multistability, and ghost attractors. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(10), 3366-3375.
- Deco, G., Tononi, G., Boly, M., & Kringelbach, M. L. (2015): Rethinking segregation and integration: contributions of whole-brain modelling. Nature reviews neuroscience, 16(7), 430-439.
- Deco, G., Kringelbach, M. L., Jirsa, V. K., & Ritter, P. (2017): The dynamics of resting fluctuations in the brain: metastability and its dynamical cortical core. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 3095.
- Rolls, E. T., Deco, G., Huang, C. C., & Feng, J. (2023): Multiple cortical visual streams in humans. Cerebral Cortex, 33(7), 3319-3349.
- Kringelbach, M. L., Perl, Y. S., & Deco, G. (2024): The thermodynamics of mind. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 28(6), 568-581.
- Hancock, F., Rosas, F. E., Luppi, A. I., Zhang, M., Mediano, P. A., Cabral, J., ... & Turkheimer, F. E. (2025): Metastability demystified—the foundational past, the pragmatic present and the promising future. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 26(2), 82-100.
- Luppi, A.I., Sanz Perl, Y., Vohryzek, J. et al. [Deco, G., Kringelbach, M. L.]: Competitive interactions shape mammalian brain network dynamics and computation. Nat Neurosci (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-026-02205-3.