Published:
From August 2-8, 2026, I attended this year’s Deep Learning Indaba in Lagos, Nigeria. I also organized the satellite workshop on NeuroAI together with a team of Imbizo students.
Published:
For one week every summer, the density of brilliant minds in the south of Germany increases significantly: the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting brings together around 70 Nobel Laureates and more than 600 young scientists from all over the world.
Published:
Between October and December, I had the privilege of spending three months in Cape Town as part of the DFG I2I initiative, a German-African research collaboration, working on the project “Supporting the Diagnosis of Epilepsy Using Artificial Intelligence.” I conducted this project at the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital.
Published:
During the week of August 17–22, 2025, I attended the Deep Learning Indaba in Kigali, Rwanda. I was invited as a keynote speaker and panelist at the NeuroAI workshop, where I presented my latest research on contrastive learning for neural time series data.
Published:
On June 5th, 2025, I had the pleasure of presenting at the Science Slam - AI Edition as part of Tübingen Talks Tech. Doctoral candidates and postdocs from the University of Tübingen shared their research in entertaining 10-minute talks for a general audience.
Published:
Excited to share that the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS) just published a scholar spotlight about my Ph.D. work at the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience! 🤖🧠
Published:
In late June 2024, I had the pleasure of attending the “Research in Encoding And Decoding of Neural Ensembles” (AREADNE) conference, held on the Greek island of Milos.
Published:
In February 2024, I had the opportunity to teach statistics at the Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL) in Gabon, Africa. This course is part of a Master’s program in “Infection Biology and Control” in collaboration with the University of Tübingen. The program aims to equip students from West and Central Africa with the skills needed to address infectious disease challenges in sub-Saharan Africa.
Published:
As PhD students we often get asked, “Hey, how is your thesis going?” This question can often create a lot of pressure even if it is well-intended. I had the great pleasure to discuss this topic with two of the authors of a paper published in 2023 about the mental health of PhD students.