Cognitive and computational neuroscientist interested in somatosensory perception and the dynamics of neural circuits.

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Since Oct. 2023: Doctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Human Brain and Cognitive Science, Leipzig, Germany
Project: Investigating the neural dynamics of tactile detection using neural mass modelling and EEG.
2021 - 2023: M.A. (Research) Brain and Cognitive Sciences (cum laude), Track Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019: University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Medical Image Analysis and Molecular Neurobiology (master’s level), Exchange semester with ERASMUS+
2017-2021: B.A. Cognitive Science, Osnabrück University, Germany

Nov. 2022 - Jul. 2023: Research intern at Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon
Task: Building a computational model that investigates the role of serotonin in neural dynamics.
Jul. 2022 - Dec. 2022: Research assistant at Amsterdam Brain and Cognition, Amsterdam
Task: Delineation of subcortical structures and literature research on post-mortem MRI and histology for 3D brain reconstruction.
Jan. 2022 - Jul. 2022: Research project at Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging, Amsterdam
Task: Investigating recurrent processing in perceiving visual illusions.
Jul. 2021 - Sept. 2021: Internship at Bangor University, Psychology Department, DAAD RISE scholarship
Task: Coding multisensory integration experiment in Python.
Jan. 2021 - Jun. 2021: Research assistant at Osnabrück University, Neurobiopsychology Research Group
Task: Programming, testing and conducting EEG experiments.
Aug. 2020 - Sept. 2020: Internship in project Plan4Act at the University of Göttingen
Task: Implementing LSTM networks trained on spike-train data.