Neuroinformatics (BSc)

Neuroinformatics can be defined as the application to the neurosciences of methods for measurement, analysis and modelling derived from the physical sciences. 

World's first studies in neuroinformatics starting from the BSc level will be launched in the academic year 2009/2010 at the University of Warsaw, Department of Physics. The idea behind the design of the course stems from the following observations and constraints:

• Many neuroinformaticians and computational neuroscientists have physics as the primary higher education background (BSc/MSc).
• A strong background in applied mathematics and the physical sciences is definitely an advantage for these fields.
• Physicists working in neuroscience lack solid biomedical foundations, which would stem from basic and well ordered designed knowledge of  (bio)chemistry, biology and physiology.
• The Bologna process suggests that 3-years BSc studies should not only provide foundations for the  MSc course, but also give self-contained knowledge.