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
| Jun, 2025 | Super excited to share our new preprint with Martin Hebart and Katharina Dobs! We show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space. Check out this thread for a quick summary  |
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| May, 2025 | At another CAOs workshop in Rovereto, I presented initial results of an exciting new project on investigating face and body selectivity in deep neural networks. |
| Sep, 2024 | I attended another lively NEAT workshop in Osnabrück. A great event with stimulating discussions and lots of fun with friends and colleagues. |
| Sep, 2024 | The conference season ends with a poster and a pint 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” held at Rauischholzhausen Castle. |
| May, 2024 | At the CAOs workshop in Rovereto, I presented initial results of my first PhD project on multidimensional representations within category-selective visual areas  |
| May, 2024 | I 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 | Big news! I’m thrilled to have been awarded a doctoral scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation  |
| Sep, 2023 | And so the journey begins: I started my PhD with Katharina Dobs and Martin Hebart at JLU Giessen!  |