Philippa Hennessey
PhD student
Philippa Hennessey
Theoretical Systems Neuroscience
Bernstein Center Freiburg
Hansastr. 9a
79104 Freiburg
philippa.hennessey@biologie.uni-freiburg.de
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