Gašper Tkačik (born 1979) is a Slovenian theoretical physicist and

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Life and work

After completing his International Baccalaureate from Bežigrad high school in Ljubljana, he enrolled in the department of mathematics and physics at the University of Ljubljana, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics in 2001.Article about Tkačik
Delo, 6 December 2011 He continued his studies at Princeton University with William Bialek and

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where he received a

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in physics. Later he was a

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at the University of Pennsylvania until he was employed at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tkacik, Gasper 1979 births Living people Slovenian physicists University of Ljubljana alumni Princeton University alumni Scientists from Ljubljana Computational neuroscience 21st-century physicists