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• 🧑‍🏫 🧑‍🏫 New PhD students joining the lab in October 2025 — We are excited to welcome Max Wassermann - he will be working on intracranial recordings of single-unit and LFP data as part of the CRC “Robust Vision”. We also welcome Jiaxin Wang as a PhD student in a collaborative research project with Peter Dayan at the MPI for Biological Cybernetics! Jiaxin will study human decision-making and memory processes together with computational modelling. Check out their project pages here and here.

• 🧠 October 2025 — Meghal, Muthu, and Raees presented posters at the Systems Neuroscience Symposium in Tübingen - connecting with neuroscience community at home.
• 🧩 October 2025 — Our joint women’s retreat between the CRC “Robust Vision” and the SPP ‘Brain Loops’ took place in Stuttgart! Meghal and Muthu attended the retreat organized by Stefanie and the two fantastic scientific coordinators Ulf Lüders and Fauve de Arnal - It was a great opportunity to network, exchange experiences and scientific ideas amongst PIs and young scientists and build a supportive and interactive community.
• 🧠 September 2025 — The C3N Lab was well represented at the Bernstein Conference in Frankfurt! Meghal, Muthu, and Raees presented their posters and had a fantastic time connecting with computational neuroscientists from around the world.
• 📄 September 2025 — Stefanie is a Guest Editor of the new Nature Collection on Cortical–subcortical brain loops, open for submissions until 19 Feb 2026.
• 🧠 June 2025 — Our new preprint is out on bioRxiv! We show how theta–gamma–spike coupling coordinates sequential memory in the human MTL. Read the preprint
• 📰 June 2025 — Great article featuring our collaborators - Florian Mormann and his team from Bonn — exploring how memory emerges from neuronal activity! If you look closely, you can detect Stefanie in one picture🙂 LinkedIn post • ZEIT article (in German)
• 🎤 March 2025 — Muthu presented her research as a Young Investigator oral presentation in the Investigating memory using human single-neuron recordings symposium at the 16th NWG Meeting in Göttingen, Germany.
• 🧠 March 2025 — Our paper is now published in Nature Neuroscience! Read the paper
• 🌄 March 2025 — Muthu and Raees represented the lab at the IMPRS MMFD Retreat — sharing ideas and forging new collaborations!
• 🌍 January 2025 — We received African-German Scientific Exchange grant in the Field of Neurosciences grant from DFG. Proud to advance AI for global epilepsy care.
• 🏆 February 2024 — Our team, in collaboration with Machine Learning for Science (MLS) Lab, made competitive submission at the Seizure Detection Challenge! organized by EPFL and partners. We had 5 submissions rank in the Top 10, achieving benchmark-level performance focused on AI for real-time seizure detection
• 🔬 December 2024 — Awarded prestigious Collaborative Research Center grant for “Robustness of Vision – Principles of Inference and Neural Mechanisms”(CRC 1233)
• 🤝 November 2024 — Raees and Stefanie contributed to the CherISH Workshop in Tübingen
• 🎉 October 2024 — A warm welcome Raees to the C3N Lab! Looking forward to exciting work ahead.
• 🧬 September 2024 — Muthu presented her work at the Bernstein Conference
• 🚀 September 2024 — Meghal & Stefanie participated IMPRS-IS Bootcamp and organized a interative tutorial on Potential of LLMs in Healthcare
• 🧪 July 2024 — Meghal showcased her research at ICML ‘24 – AI for Science Workshop — bridging machine learning and healthcare!
• 🌍 January 2024 — Stefanie delivered a guest lecture at AIMS Africa