I am seeking to understand how value and social memories are encoded in neuronal circuits and how individual differences arising from prior experience and genetics shape these neuronal functions and behavior.

I am interested in how expectation updating is supported by limbic networks.

I am an electrical engineer in a shared project with the Fraunhofer Institute to advance the development of non-invasive sensor-rich mazes for the high dimensional automated assessment of multiple behavioral domains.

I am a theoretical neuroscientist. My goal is to understand the complex interactions between learning and neuronal representations and how they shape reinforcement learning and social behavior.

I am developing new behavioral paradigms with ecological longitudinal designs for better translatability.

I examine the role of dynamic dopamine signaling in striatal coding of sensory information

I aim to understand how distributed circuits interact to generate cognitions related to social behaviors and expected value. Towards this aim, I combine fMRI and electrophysiology in behaving mice.

My research focuses on the full development of awake mouse fMRI. This work shall contribute to a better understanding of the networks critically involved in stress-related responses. Here I investigate the interaction of natural social behaviors with individual response traits.

My goal is to understand how expectations are formed and corrected through neuronal computations in distributed circuits.

I am developing new tools and approaches to better understand cognitive flexibility and value assignment in complex behaviors. Specifically, I am interested in how interregional networks are coordinated dynamically to generate plasticity and new memories.

I am interested in the dynamics of complex social interactions and development of non-invasive sensor-rich mouse habitats

My goal is to advance functional MRI as a translational tool.

I examine how social information is encoded in distributed brain circuits. My goal is to generate an olfactory systems model of social identity and value presentations.

I am investigating social and reward memory formations. My goal is to better understand how distributed circuits encode value information.

Group leader, CIMH, Heidelberg University

ESI, Frankfurt

Professor in Neurology, Wuhan U

Fellow, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL

Researcher, Heidelberg University

PostDoc, Childrens Hospital, Philadelphia

Co-owner of korallenzucht.eu

Group leader, Brain Research Institute, Zurich

Group leader, SFB1158, Heidelberg University