Former lab members

These are the people that grew our lab to what it is today.

Marco Badwal

MD candidate (2024), co-supervised with Christian Doeller and Johanna Bergmann, tried to deepen our understanding of how the brain constructs relationships between objects/concepts and whether the underlying principles comply with spatial neural codes. Avid meditator, runner, Crossfitter, and soon-to-be doctor.

Carina Daun

Research assistant (2021), studies Psychology at University of Halle-Wittenberg (B.Sc.). New to neuroscience and still searching for a topic she wants to focus on. Interested in sensory processing and dismantling the complexity of human perception. Into swimming, heated discussions, and spicy pho. 

Shu Fujimori

Intern (2022), student of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan. Worked on analyzing brain activity using a computational model. His favorite German beer is SPATEN.

Hannes Hansen

Master student / research assistant, Student of Computer Science (M.Sc.) at University of Leipzig. Likes exploring deep AI models, improving online experiments, and spending 6 hours trying to automate something instead of doing it by hand in 5 minutes.

Philipp Kaniuth

PhD candidate, interested in improving representational similarity analysis and how the link between stages of cortical visual representations and behavior depends on the task. Likes all kinds of lemonade way too much, even while refereeing a basketball game.

Weronika Kłos

Research assistant, studies Data Science (M.Sc.) at Freie Universität Berlin. Interested in deep learning and its applications to neuroscientific research. Likes brain decoding, juggling and lasagna.

Roman Leipe

Master Student / research assistant, was a student of Computer Science (M.Sc.) at University of Leipzig. Worked on predicting brain activity with deep neural networks. Dreads the day his student software licenses run out.

Katya Müller

Research assistant / Master student (2024) studied M.Sc. Medical Computer Science. Interested in how we perceive the world and form representations of it. Loves taking A1 language classes. All of them.

Julia Norman

Student assistant / intern (2021), evaluating preprocessing and statistical pipelines for the analysis of large-scale fMRI data. Finds joy in dancing, swimming, and teaching her 3-year-old to snorkel.

Jonas Perkuhn

Master student / Research assistant (-2021), Student of Psychology (M.Sc.) at University of Leipzig. Research Focus: object categorization, systems neuroscience. Interested in cacti, lemons, and the differences between them.

Linus Sommer

Research Assistant, studies mathematics in Leipzig. Focuses on deep learning. Contributing to Brain-Score and more. Loves cycling and running. Read almost every Neal Stephenson Novel.

Ülkü Tonbuloglu

Master student, studied Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience (M.Sc.) at Freie Universität Berlin. Interested in human visual perception and cross modal interaction. Was a latin dancer before corona :')

Riccardo Venturini

Master student, studied Neuroscience and Neuropsychology at University of Trento. Interested in sensory neuroscience and fascinated by popular science and science communication. Relocates to a different city every other year and then spends the next five years talking about it.