Position:	PhD Student -- ended Dec 2020
Email:	rakrei@ini.uzh.ch
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Location:	55g87

Before starting my Phd in the group “Neuromorphic Cognitive Robots”, I obtained my Bachelor degree in the field of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück. Following, I studied Neural Systems & Computation in the master’s program of the Institute of Neuroinformatics where I became interested in the realisation of neuronal architectures in mixed signal analog/digital neuromorphic chips and their application for autonomous robots. My aim is to understand how the brain can learn a cognitive map of the environment and I investigate the properties as well as the interplay between grid cells, place cells, head direction cells and other cell types found in hippocampus and entorhinal cortex.
Finally, my goal is to use continuous neuronal dynamics to develop neurally inspired computing architectures and to implement these in neuromorphic chips that can be interfaced with robots in order to perceive, learn and act in a closed sensory-motor loop.
In my free time I like to play the piano, bake, and do a variety of sports including acrobatics and horse back riding.