As a doctoral student I work on the computational principles that construct and wire the brain during development. The core question is how billions of individual axons navigate through the developing brain and reliably find their individual targets to form their complex wiring, while the genome only has about 1GB of information capacity to store the rules for this process. The solution to this paradox is of a computational nature, and so the tools we employ are theory and simulation, informed by (analysis of) available experimental data.

I did my bachelors in Liberal Arts and Sciences (UCM, Maastricht University) and Knowledge Engineering and Data Science (DKE, Maastricht University), and a masters in Neural Systems and Computation (here at INI).