Data Science / Neuronal Modeling

We gain insights into the healthy and diseased nervous system by developing and using computational models.

Aleksejs Timčenko

Alex Timčenko decodes visual stimuli from brain data by following the latent neural trajectories of cell populations. He is a PhD student at Hertie AI…

Harini Sudha J G

Harini Sudha uses Deep Learning to uncover fundamental principles of retinal perception across species. She is a PhD researcher at the Hertie AI and a…

Fabio Seel

Fabio Seel asks whether the retina follows an efficient coding strategy, whether the importance of a stimulus shapes our vision, and how the natural…

Dr. Jonathan Oesterle

Jonathan Oesterle studies the signal processing of the inner retina, with a focus on regional differences that may reflect task-specific adaptations.…
Portrait of Kyra Kadhim from Hertie AI

Kyra Kadhim

Kyra Kadhim studies how the brain processes visual information, starting from the very first synapses in the retina. In the past, she worked on…

Dr. Simone Ebert

Simone Ebert studies how inhibition shapes early visual processing in the retina. She is a PostDoc in the Department of Data Science. Before joining…
Portrait of Huang Ziwei, Hertie AI

Dr. Ziwei Huang

Ziwei Huang is a scientific software developer at the Hertie AI. Previously, he studied psychology in China and neuroscience in Norway and Germany. He…
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Prof. Dr. Philipp Berens

Philipp Berens is Director of the Hertie Institute for AI in Brain Health and Full Professor of Data Science at the University of Tübingen. He is…
Portrait of Sacha Sokoloski from Hertie AI

Dr. Sacha Sokoloski

Dr. Sacha Sokoloski is a group leader for Neuronal Modeling in the Department of Data Science at the Hertie Institute for AI in Brain Health at the…
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Jonas Beck

Jonas Beck is interested in probabilistic inference in mechanistic models of neuroscience. More specifically, he applies probabilistic numerical…

Dr. Lisa Schmors

Lisa Schmors is interested in the potential synergies between neuroscience and machine learning (NeuroAI). She received her Ph.D. from the University…
Portrait of Jan Lause from Hertie AI

Dr. Jan Lause

Jan Lause works on neural computations in the retina, especially how the enigmatic group of amacrine cells shapes the signals that the retina sends to…

Alumni

Portrait of Sarah Strauß from Hertie AI

Sarah Strauß

Sarah was a PhD student in the Department of Data Science at the Hertie Institute for AI in Brain Health at the University of Tübingen and the…