Research interests

• Nonlinear Dynamics
  
• Theoretical Neurophysics and Computational Neuroscience
• Sleep and Plasticity

• Neural Mass Models
  

• April 2009 - present
  PhD student at the Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics and within the Graduate School for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences, University Lübeck, Germany
  Project: Brain Modelling
  

• October 2003 - December 2008:
  Student of Physics at the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel.
  Graduated with the degree of Dipl.-Phys.

• Complex Dynamics in Large-Scale Interacting Brain Systems:
  "Towards Physical Models of Sleep and Consciousness"
  21. - 25. Juni 2009 in Dresden, Germany
  Poster: Switching On and OFF Cortical UP/DOWN States in a Simple Model
  
• Dynamics Days Europe 2009
  31.08. - 04.09.2009 in Göttingen, Germany
  Contributed Talk: Triggering Bursts in All-to-all Coupled Neurons