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
Perturbatome, spike coding
Caroline Haimerl, PhD
Postdoc (joint with Joe Paton)
RL, striatum
Gonçalo Guiomar
INDP PhD Student (joint with Joe Paton)
RL, striatum
Guillermo Martin
Masters Student
Spike Coding, Hippocampus
Francesca Mastroguiseppe, PhD
Postdoc
Neural Networks, 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
Michael Pereira
INDP PhD Student (joint with Rui Costa)
mazes, hippocampus, RL
Oihane Horno
INDP PhD Student (joint with Leopoldo Petreanu & Susana Lima)
vision, dimensionality reduction, behavior
Raphael Steinfeld, PhD
Postdoc (joint with Alfonso Renart)
electrophysiology, perturbatome, spiking networks
Severin Berger
INDP PhD student
RL, efficient coding, dimensionality reduction
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)