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
| Aug, 2025 | CCN25 in Amsterdam was a lot of fun! I presented results from my second PhD project, where we tested how segregated or integrated face and body processing are in DNNs and visual cortex. Check out our short paper or the poster for a quick overview   |
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| 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  |
| May, 2025 | At CAOs in Rovereto, I presented initial results of an exciting new project investigating face and body selectivity in DNNs and visual cortex. |
| Sep, 2024 | I attended NEAT 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 findings from my first PhD project at CCN in Boston! It was very nice to meet so many great scientists and exchange ideas with them. Check out our short paper or the poster for more  |
| 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 CAOs in Rovereto, I presented 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 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!  |
