Meet the Team
We are a diverse group – biologists, computer scientists, physicists, mathematicians, psychologists – we code and create theoretical models.
Christian Machens, PhD
Principal Investigator
theoretical neuroscience
Adrien Jouary, PhD
Postdoc (joint with Mike Orger)
behavior, zebrafish, latent variable models
Bertrand Lacoste, PhD
Postdoc (joint with Susana Lima)
behavior, dopamine, sexual drive
Bill Podlaski, PhD
Postdoc
spike coding, perturbatome, hippocampus
Caroline Haimerl, PhD
Postdoc (joint with Joe Paton)
representational drift, reinforcement learning
Francesca Mastroguiseppe, PhD
Postdoc
interarea communication, recurrent neural networks
Guillermo Martin
PhD student (INDP)
spike coding, hippocampal remapping
Ildefonso Pica
INDP PhD Student
spike coding, perturbatome, dimensionality reduction
Joana Carmona
INDP PhD Student
interarea communication, predictive coding, non-normal networks
Matthijs oude Lohuis, PhD
Postdoc (joint with Leopoldo Petreanu)
interarea communication, perceptual decision-making, brainwide imaging
Miguel Donderis
INDP PhD Student
spike coding, balance, scaling
Vitor Paiva
Technician
spike coding, adaptive control
Alumni
Franz Weber (PhD student, joint with Axel Borst, Max-Planck)
Pedro Goncalves (PhD student)
Viola Priesemann (PhD student)
Adrien Wohrer (Postdoc)
Juha Kesseli (Postdoc)
Mark Humphries (Postdoc, joint with Boris Gutkin & Sophie Deneve, ENS Paris)
Florian Dehmelt (PhD Student)
Wieland Brendel (PhD student)
Nuno Calaim (PhD student)
David Barrett (Postdoc, joint with Sophie Deneve, ENS Paris)
Joao Semedo (PhD student, joint with Byron Yu, CMU & Adam Kohn, Albert Einstein)
Dmitry Kobak (Postdoc)
Asma Motiwala (PhD student, joint with Joe Paton)
Sander Keemink (Postdoc)
Allan Mancoo (PhD student)
Michael Pereira (PhD student)
Goncalo Guiomar (PhD student, joint with Joe Paton)
Oihane Horno (PhD student, joint with Leopoldo Petreanu & Susana Lima)
Severin Berger (PhD student)
Raphael Steinfeld (Postdoc, joint with Alfonso Renart)