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Philippa Hennessey

PhD student

 Philippa Hennessey

Philippa Hennessey
Theoretical Systems Neuroscience
Bernstein Center Freiburg
Hansastr. 9a
79104 Freiburg


Tel: +49 (0)761 203 67980 

Research Interests

  • Role of inhibition for pattern separation in the dentate gyrus
  • Dynamics in recurrent neural networks
  • Homeostatic self-regulation of neural networks
  • Statistical analysis methods for sparse data

Techniques

  • Computational modeling of spiking neural networks
  • Statistical data analysis

Academic Background

  • since 2025: Doctoral studies, supervised by Christian Leibold, Bernstein Center Freiburg, Germany 
  • 2022: Erasmus Stipendium, Universitetet i Oslo, Norway 
  • 2020 - 2023: M.Sc. Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Germany
  • 2016 - 2020: B.Sc. Cognitive Science, University of Tübingen, Germany

Experience

  • 2023 - 2024: Associate Scientist Bioinformatics, Immatics Biotechnologies
  • 2021 - 2023: Working Student Bioinformatics, Immatics Biotechnologies
  • 2017 - 2019: Student assistant with Prof. Dr. Janczyk, Behavior and Action, University of Tübingen