Fleur Zeldenrust - University teaching

Summary

At the FNWI, Radboud University, I am the coordinator of the MSc specialisation in Neurobiology, I re-designed the ’Mathematics for Biologists’ course to add an e-learning component and I supervise honours students. At the University of Amsterdam I set up a track in computational neuroscience within the BSc program ’Psychobiology’. I formulated overall learning goals and aligned existing courses (taught by teachers from different backgrounds) to these goals by making an inventory of the content and required prior knowledge and discussing this with the lecturers, so that the courses were complementary and did not show knowledge gaps. I taught in different courses, At the École Normale Supérieure I taught a MSc level neuromodelling course. As a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam I worked as a TA in many courses. I assisted the students during practical assignments, graded them, and taught the students the relevant theories. Later, I was involved in training TAs, writing new syllabi and supervising students at their theses. I also worked as a teacher at an institute for exam trainings. For internships and supervision, see Team.

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!

Overview

Date	Award
2021	‘Math Checks Out’ Award of the Biology student association ‘BeeVee‘
2020	Junior Teacher Award of the Faculty of Science of the Radboud University
2019	Junior Teacher Award of the Teaching Institute of Biosciences of the Radboud University
	Course
2022 – current	Neural Computation (AI, RU): yearly guest lecture
2022 – current	Trends in Cognitive Neuroscience (CNS MSc, RU): yearly lecture + review of ~20 critical notes and ~reviews thereof
2021 – current	MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience: As leader of the theme ‘Natural Computation and Neurotechnology’ of the Donders Institute, I am responsible for the track in this master with the same name.
2019 – 2020	Honours Programme Science (BSc, FNWI, RU): I supervised a group of students
2020 – current	Lectures in the course ‘Neural dynamics and deep learning’ in MSc program Artificial Intelligence and MSc program Biomedical Sciences at the University of Amsterdam
2019 – current	MSc in Neurobiology: I am the coordinator of this specialisation of the MSc in Medical Biology at the Radboud University
2017 – current	Mathematics for Biologists: I re-designed the course to involve an e-learning component (that came in handy when the lockdown came!), added biological context and fitted the course in the new curriculum.
2017 – current	BSc Essay course: I supervise several biology students in their BSc essay
2017 – current	Confidant: I am an external mentor for up to 8 PhD students.
2017 – current	Numerus fixus: the ’numerus fixus committee’ designed the selection procedure for the Bachelour’s programme in Biology
2017 – current	Systematic Reviews Neuroscience: I supervise students in writing a literature review
2018	Systems Neuroscience (MSc Neurobiology, RU): lecture on methods of measuring mutual information in neural signals
2015 – 2018	Signal Analysis: in 2015 I supervised this course, gave lectures and developed assignments in the BSc Psychobiology at the University of Amsterdam.In 2018, I gave guest lectures.
2014 – 2018	Neurophysiology: each year I gave a lecture about basic membrane properties in this course in the BSc Psychobiology at the University of Amsterdam.
2014 – 2018	Leren en Geheugen (learning and memory): each year I gave two lectures about learning in neural networks in this course in the BSc Psychobiology at the University of Amsterdam.
2014 – 2018	Van Perceptie tot Bewustzijn (from perception to consciousness): each year I gave two lectures about neural networks in this course in the BSc Psychobiology at the University of Amsterdam.
2014 – 2018	Computational Cognitive Neuroscience 1/2: I designed, taught, supervised and corrected lectures and tutorials on unsupervised learning in this course in the BSc Psychobiology at the University of Amsterdam.
2016	Radboud Summer School in Maps in the Brain: I co-organised, gave a lecture and designed and supervised a tutorial on how to analyse spike trains.
2015	BKO (teaching qualification for Dutch universities): I received my BKO qualification May 2015. This qualification shows that I can develop courses, teach and supervise students at projects.
2015	Programming: I designed an introductory course in programming in Matlab for the BSc Psychobiology at the University of Amsterdam.
2015	Radboud Summer School in Neural Metrics 2.0: I co-organised, gave a lecture and designed and supervised a tutorial on how to analyse spike trains.
2015	OIST Computational Neuroscience Course: I was invited as a tutor in this Summer School in Japan: I supervised students and gave several tutorials.
2014	Radboud Summer School in Neural Metrics: I gave a lecture and designed and supervised a tutorial on how to compare spike trains.
2013	Atelier théorique modélisation computationnelle at the École Normale Supérieure. An MSc-level course in neural modelling.
2011	Fourier analysis for neuroscientists at the University of Amsterdam. I wrote the syllabus.
2007 – 2011	Advanced Neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam A MSc-level course, in which the students used the ‘Neurons in Action’ toolbox, and had to give presentations about scientific articles. The first years I was teaching this course, later I was training TAs.
2010	Signal Analysis for Neurophysiology at the University of Amsterdam, a BSc-level course based on Wallisch et al. ‘MATLAB for Neuroscientists. An Introduction to Scientific Computing in MATLAB’.
2008 – 2010	Neurophysiology at the University of Amsterdam An introduction into neurophysiology. The first years I was teaching this course, later I was training TAs.
2006	Neurons in Action at University of Amsterdam, a course based on the interactive tutorial by J.W. Moore and A.E. Stuart, in which students perform patch-clamp experiments in silico.
2006	Neural Networks at the University of Amsterdam, a final-year BSc-level course in the modelling and interpretation of in silico neural networks.
2005 – 2006	Teacher (physics and mathematics) at Stichting Studiebegeleiding Leiden, an institute at Leiden University, which provides exam trainings for secondary school students.
2003 – 2004	Tutor to first-year physics students at the University of Amsterdam. I assisted students with their assignments, but also helped them to deal with practical problems.
2002 – 2004	Mathematics for Economics at the University of Amsterdam, a BSc-level course in basic mathematics.
2002	Physics of Waves and Oscillations at the University of Amsterdam, a BSc-level course in physics.
2001	Mentor to first-year ‘Beta-Gamma’ (interdisciplinary BSc) students, University of Amsterdam. I assisted students with their assignments, but also helped them to deal with practical problems.