Science is really a team effort. The people below are collaborating with me on different Projects.

I am always looking for new people to join my lab. For current open internship projects, see this page. Since we do mostly modelling, computer simulations and advanced data analysis (that means, bluntly said, computer programming and mathematics), some affinity and experience with math and programming would really help (see here for an overview). If you’re motivated and willing to learn, you don’t have to be an expert of course, but especially for short internships it is better to be able to focus on the science than on learning how  to program.

NB There are several programs you can follow if you want to go into (computational) neuroscience. This is a list of all the Neuro-based MSc programs in Nijmegen. From September 2026, a new BSc program in neuroscience will start!

These are good resources to start looking for jobs in Computational Neuroscience! 

BSc

	Mariami Truchian analyzes in vitro single cell data
	Eva O’Donohoe is analyzing the effects of delay on information transfer in hippocampal circuits

MSc

	Utku Ortal is exploring the relation between network dimensionality, trial to trial variability and representation error in spike coding networks
	Daria Mihăilă is an ELLIS excellence fellow, investigating the effects of neural heterogeneity on balanced networks
	Daniel Bijker will start in January, he will explore the effect of synaptic heterogeneity on network dynamics and learning tasks, using the FORCE training approach on rate neural networks.
	Leo Tinius is analytically researching the effects of the E-I ratio in balanced networks on the network activity

PhD

	Nishant Joshi is a SmartNets student, modelling the effect of single-neuron non-linearities on network behaviour.
	Tousif Jamal is a SmartNets student, analysing network patterns in molecular and neural networks
	Nicolas Rault is a SmartNets student, developing network models of somatosensory processing.
	Tea Tompos is implementing biophysical principles of intracellular information processing in neuromorphic software and later hardware.
	Filip Novický is a Serotonin and Beyond student, modelling the effects of serotonin and its relation to attention.

Postdoc

	Arezoo Alizadeh is a postdoc, modelling the effects of neuromodulators in balanced networks.
	Farhad Razi is a postdoc, modelling the effects of neuromodulators on FORCE learning

Alumni

Parineeta Ekhande analyzed the effects of delay on information transfer in hippocampal circuits

Ildefonso Ferreira Pica modelled the effect of dopamine on the balanced state in networks of barrel cortex.

Lino Vliex  integrated biologically realistic models of barrel and motor cortex, in order to evaluate the quality of whisker-related information processing. This to answer the question to what extend motor and sensory information are optimally integrated in (active) sensing tasks. 

Axel van Emmerik used advanced mutual information methods to research proteomic networks

Irene Tiemeijer modelled biophysically realistic models of barrel cortex

Joris Bottelier used ‘FORCE’ learning to study recurrent neural networks that can learn to perform tasks.

Camille de Keijser analyzed in vitro single cell data

Thijs van Loo used ‘FORCE’ learning to study recurrent neural networks that can learn to perform tasks.

Lauren Keizer modelled microcircuits of barrel cortex.

Angeliki Sideri measured the information transfer of inhibitory-excitatory microcircuits.

Anna Chita is modelling the effects of deprivation on barrel cortical circuits

Raimon Bullich I Vilarrubias researched the effects of acetylcholine on heterogeneous spike coding networks in a joint project with Sander Keemink

Mark Bensman modelled microcircuits of barrel cortex.

Saskia Okkerman investigated how the method to measure information transfer depends on the number of excitatory and inhibitory neurons

Pedro Alonso Gonzáles investigated the differences between threshold adaptation and spike frequency adaptation on information transfer.

Lois de Groot used ‘FORCE’ learning to make recurrent neural networks that can learn to perform tasks.

Mik Schutte updated the method to measure information transfer in vitro to dynamic clamp

Joost van Tiel  analyzed the data Linda Wouter modelled in the plasticity after whisker deprivation in barrel cortex project.

Vaishnavi V used‘FORCE’ learning to make recurrent neural networks that can learn to perform tasks.

Additaya Sharma is modelled the balanced states in networks of barrel cortex.

Hendrik Scheeres is used ‘FORCE’ learning to make recurrent neural networks that can learn to perform tasks.

Tim Winter was integrating biophysical simulation models on the one hand, and phenomenological models, using ‘FORCE’ learning to make recurrent neural networks that can learn to perform tasks. 

Xenia Sterl was modelling the effect of dopamine on microcircuits of barrel cortex.

Niccolò Calcini developed a new method for analysing calcium data and did in-vitro experiments to measure the information transfer in excitatory and inhibitory neurons.

Prescilla Uijtewaal modelled balanded networks in a joint project with Bernhard Englitz. 

Mihaela Neacsu did a short summer internshop on measuring the information transfer of inhibitory-excitatory microcircuits.

Ate Bijlsma developed single-neuron models to explain his recordings.

Sam Verhezen measured the information transfer of inhibitory-excitatory microcircuits.

Dimitris Chatzakis compared different methods to measure information transfer, and how that depends on neuron type during his Erasmus internship.

Eva Koenders modelled the VC data Ate Bijlsma recorded, in order to investigate the threshold behaviour in barrel cortical neurons.

Linda Wouters modelled plasticity after whisker deprivation in barrel cortex.

Thijs Groenveld has analysed a dataset from Janelia farm to validate our model. 

Charlee Fletterman has compared models of predictive coding. 

Isolde Kuijper has investigated the effects of adaptation and non-linear processing on optimal coding in single neurons. 

Jiri Brummer has investigated biologically realistic balanced networks.

Pantelis Leptourgos has researched Bayesian detection in single neurons.

Stefan Bucher has fitted GLM models to hippocampal in vitro data. 

Laura van Heerden has modelled the high-conductance state in thalamocortical relay neurons.

Arjan Groen has calculated the reliability of spike trains in models of CA3 of hippocampus.

Lisanne Huurdeman has analysed in-vitro data of thalamocortical relay cells.