The Laboratory for the Neural Basis of Brain States (LNBBS) is directed by Prof. Sean Hill and based at the Campus Biotech in Geneva, Switzerland. The laboratory focuses on understanding cortical and thalamocortical structure and function and the relationship to states of the brain including wakefulness, sleep and anesthesia. The group employs biophysically-detailed computational models and large-scale simulations to investigate the cellular and synaptic mechanisms underlying brain states in health and disease. 

LNBBS is part of Blue Brain, a Swiss national brain initiative that applies advanced neuroinformatics, data analytics, high-performance computing infrastructure and simulation-based approaches to the challenge of understanding the structure and function of the mammalian brain in health and disease.

Professor Hill also heads the Neuroinformatics division at Blue Brain. The Neuroinformatics division provides the informatics infrastucture to organize, search, access and analyze heterogeneous neuroscience data including multi-scale brain atlases, machine learning, machine vision, data and text mining, data analysis and data-driven ontologies.