David Holcman#
| Membership Number: | 7196 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Affiliated section(s): | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ibens.bio.ens.psl.eu/spip.php?rubrique40&lang=fr |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9854-5014 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - 2023 Visiting Professor, DAMTP, Cambridge University, UK (3 months)
- 2019 Visiting Professor, Cambridge University (5 months), Fellow of St John’s College; Visiting Professor, Churchill College (5 months), UK; Recipient of the Beaufort Visiting Award
- 2015 - 2017 Visiting Professor, Oxford University (OCCIAM), Mathematics; Visiting Fellow, Brasenose College, UK
- 2015 - 2016 Visiting Professor, Newton Institute and DAMTP, Cambridge University, UK
- 2015 Overseas French Government Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge University, UK (elected in 2014)
- 2009 - present Senior Group Leader, Director of Research (Interdisciplinary Research), CNRS, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
- 2004 - 2009 Senior Scientist and Group Leader, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
- 2002 - 2003 Sloan Fellow, Adjunct Assistant Professor, UCSF (Department of Physiology, Dr. J. Korenbrot) and Berkeley (Department of Mathematics, Host: Dr. C. Pugh), USA
- 2000 - 2002 Postdoctoral Fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (Dr. Kannai); Appointed Senior Scientist in 2002
Fields of Scholarship
- Reconstructing glial and neuronal networks from calcium time series
- Electrophysiological time series method analysis
- Biophysics of membrane trajectories
- Computational Neuroscience
- Quantifying receptor organization and trafficking for synaptic transmission and plasticity
- EEG time series method for brain depth prediction during anesthesia
- Modeling Neuron-glia interactions
- Development of statistical methods to study Microglia organization
- Simulations of molecular dynamics in neurons and astrocytes
- Calcium dynamics in dendrite and dendritic spines
Honours and Awards
- 2025 ERC Proof of Concept Grant
- 2021 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2019 Beaufort Visiting Award, elected at St John college Cambridge. Membership/fellowship
- 2018 Pineapple Science Award (Math Prize) – Chinese version of the Ig Nobel Prize
- 2015 Marie Curie Award
- 2017 - 2025 Elected Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge University, UK Membership/fellowship
- 2016 Elected Brasenose College, Oxford UK. Membership/fellowship
- 2015 Elected Overseas French Government Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge University, UK Membership/fellowship
- 2008 ERC Starting Grant (first call)
- 2006 - 2009 HSFP Research Grant
- 2005 - 2007 Chaire d’Excellence-France Award
- 2011 Sackler Visiting Chair, Tel Aviv University
