Conrad Wolfram: “If we teach as if computers didn’t exist, we are failing”
The expert advocates for a radical change in math education: less manual calculation, more computational thinking, and real-world connection.
He was also Director of the Center of Brain and Cognition from 2001 to 2021 (UPF). In 1987 he received his PhD in Physics for his thesis on Relativistic Atomic Collisions. From 1990 to 2003, he leads the Computational Neuroscience Group at Siemens Corporate Research Center in Munich, Germany. In 2001, he received his PhD in Psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. In 2012, he received an ERC Advanced Grant and recently in 2022 he received an ERC Synergy Grant. His research allow us to comprehend the mechanism underlying brain functions by complementing structural and activation based analyses with dynamics.
