CV

Education

11/2018 – 2026	PhD student, International Max Planck Research School for Neural Circuits, Frankfurt. Thesis Emergence of reliable sensory representations in cortical development, submitted January 2026. Supervisor: Matthias Kaschube
06/2020 – 11/2024	Funded by the Center for Multiscale Modelling, Frankfurt. Project: models of pattern formation in the developing cuttlefish skin
10/2016 – 10/2018	MSc Biophysics, Goethe University Frankfurt. Thesis: The role of network interactions in refining neural response properties in visual cortex. Supervisor: Matthias Kaschube. Final grade 1.0
10/2013 – 11/2016	BSc Biophysics, Goethe University Frankfurt. Thesis: Development of coding properties in mammalian visual cortex. Supervisor: Matthias Kaschube. Final grade 1.3
2009 – 2013	Landesschule Pforta, natural sciences track. Abitur, final grade 1.0

01/2019 – 03/2019	Rotation with Pascal Fries, Ernst Strüngmann Institute, Frankfurt. Analysis of electrophysiological recordings; the role of α-band activity
10/2017 – 10/2018	Student assistant with Matthias Kaschube, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. Analysis of spontaneous activity in visual cortex
2016 – 2017	Student assistant with Gilles Laurent, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt. Cuttlefish project
2011 – 2012	Intern, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, group of Prof. Binder, macromolecular chemistry

2021 – 2024	Theoretical Neuroscience I & II. Teaching assistant: guest lectures, coordination of exercise sheets and grading, content preparation
2018 – 2026	Computational Neuroscience Seminar. Teaching assistant: paper selection, introduction to scientific writing, feedback on talks and written reports
2017 – 2018	Machine Learning I. Teaching assistant
2015 – 2016	Mathematics for Physicists I, Mathematics for Scientists II. Undergraduate teaching assistant: weekly tutorials, grading

I have also supervised several Bachelor’s and Master’s theses on machine learning, image processing, data analysis and network simulation.

10th European Visual Cortex and Cognition Meeting, Cortona, 2026 (poster selected for a short talk)
Rhine-Main Neuroscience Meeting, Oberwesel, 2026 (invited)
Giersch Conference on Digital Twins, 2023
Computational Neuroscience Next Generation Symposium, 2023
Vision Sciences Society Meeting, St. Pete Beach, 2023
German Neuroscience Society Meeting, Göttingen, 2023 (Young Investigator Talk)
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, 2022 (nanosymposium)
Ferret Brain Meeting, San Diego, 2022
Bernstein Conference, Berlin, 2022
CNS Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, Barcelona, 2019

Bernstein Conference, 2026
HWK Workshop “Cortex Structure and Function in Mouse, Monkey and Man”, Delmenhorst, 2026
Cosyne: Lisbon 2026, 2024 and 2019; Montreal 2023; online 2021
Bernstein Conference: Frankfurt 2025 and 2024; online 2020; Berlin 2018; Göttingen 2017
Meeting on Spontaneous Activity in Brain Development: Alicante 2024 and 2022, Leiden 2018
9th European Vision and Cognition Meeting, Il Poggio, 2024
Biennial Meeting of the Rhine-Main Neuroscience Network, 2018

2023	Travel award, Organization for Computational Neuroscience
2022	Travel award, Bernstein Network
2022	Poster prize (1st place), 2nd Meeting on Spontaneous Activity in Brain Development
2019	Travel award, Organization for Computational Neuroscience
2019	Cosyne Presenters Travel Award
2018	Poster prize (3rd place), 5th Biennial Meeting of the Rhine-Main Neuroscience Network
2017 – 2018	SMARTSTART training programme in computational neuroscience, funded by the Bernstein Network and the Volkswagen Foundation
2014 – 2018	Scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
2013 – 2014	Deutschlandstipendium
2013	DPG Abiturientenpreis, German Physical Society
2013	eLeMeNTe e.V. honours, Saxony-Anhalt

2024	Co-organiser, Bernstein Network PhD Symposium at FIAS
2019 – present	Co-organiser of the German Neuroscience Olympiad final in Frankfurt: outreach and press contact, grading coordination, computational tutorial
2018 – 2022	Student representative, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
2015 – 2018	Night of Science, Goethe University Frankfurt: organising team, executive committee in 2018
2013 – 2018	Student representative (Fachschaft Physik), Goethe University Frankfurt: faculty council, examination committee, course evaluations