[4] Markram's biography "The Boy Who Felt Too Much,"[5] written by Lorenz Wagner, reveals a story about his relationship with his son, Kai.

Following his PhD, Markram went to the United States as a Fulbright Scholar at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where he studied ion channels on synaptic terminals with Elise F. Stanley.

[6] Markram was appointed assistant professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, where his group started systematically dissecting out the neocortical column.

Together with Wolfgang Maass[7] he and his team developed the so-called theory of liquid state machine, or high entropy computing.

[8][9] On 8 October 2015, the Blue Brain Project published the first digital reconstruction and simulation of the micro-circuitry of a neonatal rat somatosensory cortex.