As a physicist, I am fascinated with emergence: how something microscopic like an ion channel on a neuron can shape something human-scale, like how we view the world and interact in others
Dr. Trang-Anh Estelle Nghiem
My research aims to apply computational cognitive neuroscience, neuro-AI, and biophysics to psychiatry. Trained in physics at Cambridge, I became fascinated with how microscopic mechanisms explain the emergence of macroscopic phenomena, with a particular interest in human-scale phenomena relevant to health and medicine. This led me to studying cognitive science and obtaining my PhD in computational neuroscience and statistical physics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris. Eager to apply my skills to clinical questions, I conducted my postdoctoral research in psychiatry at Stanford. Currently, my personal research projects focus on modeling sensory salience processing, hallucinations, and delusions in schizophrenia.
As a physicist, I am fascinated with emergence: how something microscopic like an ion channel on a neuron can shape something human-scale, like how we view the world and interact in others
Present Positions And Title
Group Leader
Research Group
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Career
| Period | Institution | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Since 2025 | University of Tübingen | Group Leader |
| 2022 - 2025 | Stanford University | Postdoc |
| 2017-2018 | SA | Research Assistant |
Academic Education
| Year | Degree | Institution | Field of Study |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | PhD | Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris | Physics |
| 2017 | MSc | ENS Paris/EHESS/Paris Descartes | Cognitive Science |
| 2015 | BSc | University of Cambridge | Physics |