Lenny van Dyck
PhD Candidate
Hi, and welcome to my website!
I’m Lenny, a second-year PhD candidate in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience at JLU Giessen, working with Katharina Dobs and Martin Hebart.
In my research, I investigate how the brain transforms sensory input into meaningful representations. I’m particularly fascinated by functionally selective areas that perform specialized computations to solve this complex task. With a foundation in cognitive neuroscience and a growing passion for machine learning, I combine neuroimaging and computational modeling to uncover how the brain makes sense of the world around us.
When not doing science, I like to travel the planet in a campervan.
News
| Sep, 2024 | I had a lot of fun at another lively NEAT Workshop in Osnabrück |
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| Sep, 2024 | I presented a poster at ECVP in Aberdeen  |
| Aug, 2024 | I presented latest findings from my first PhD project as a poster at CCN in Boston! It was very nice to meet so many great scientists and exchange ideas with them  |
| Jul, 2024 | I gave a talk at the SFB workshop “Categorization in Perception and Action: Minds, Models, Mechanisms” at Rauischholzhausen Castle |
| May, 2024 | I presented a poster at the CAOs workshop in beautiful Rovereto  |
| May, 2024 | It had the pleasure of writing an invited research highlight with Frank Bremmer and Katharina Dobs on a recently published Cell article for the Nature journal Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy |
| Sep, 2023 | I’m thrilled to have been awarded a doctoral scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation!  |
| Sep, 2023 | I started my PhD with Katharina Dobs and Martin Hebart at JLU Giessen |