About

I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Felsenberg Lab at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, in the trinational corner of Basel, Switzerland.

Mission

The brain is one of the most complex systems in the universe, and we have not yet reached a full understanding of its working principles.

I apply my background in physics to questions from neuroscience, in order to develop experimentally testable and predictive models. I want to find out how brains evolved to perform adaptation and canonical computations under physical constraints.

Now I am interested in how cognitive representations of context modulate the mechanisms underlying memory retrieval. Working in flies, I dissect the neuronal and behavioural mechanisms of the mushroom body — the learning-and-memory region of the fly brain — and its interactions with higher-order regions such as the central complex.

During my PhD I studied the complex interactions between brain and body during foraging, using Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism. Before that I worked on insect-inspired navigation and walking robots.

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