Wouter Klijn completed a MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. His Master thesis was on the information content of cell species in a 3 layer model of a cortical micro-column. He currently is a teamleader in the Simlab Neuroscience at the Forschungzentrum Jülich with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, information theory of neural networks, big data real-time streaming systems and development of complex HPC processing pipelines. He is currently creating the science and software infrastructure architecture for the EBRAINS. He also works with advanced HPC oriented AI solutions and multiple neural simulators. His modelling work is focused on self-organizing dynamics of extremely large neural networks with a 2d spatial structure.