Lenny van Dyck
Hi, and welcome to my website!
I’m Lenny, a third-year PhD candidate in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience at the University of Giessen, working with Katharina Dobs in the Visual Cognition and Computational Neuroscience Lab.
My research asks how the brain transforms sensory signals into an understanding of the world around us. I’m especially interested in why certain brain regions specialize in different aspects of this task. I combine neuroimaging and computational modeling to find out.
When not doing science, I like to spend time in the mountains or travel the planet in a campervan.
News
| Aug, 2026 | CCN in New York was an absolute highlight! I had the chance to present our latest findings on striking differences in functional specialization between visual cortex and DNNs. Check out our short paper for more. |
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| Jun, 2026 | I’m very happy and grateful that my first PhD paper on Multidimensional feature tuning in category-selective areas of human visual cortex has now been published in The Journal of Neuroscience!  |
| May, 2026 | Had a great time at the infamous Vision Science Society Meeting in St. Pete Beach, where I presented new work, met lots of friends, and made a few new ones. |
| Mar, 2026 | I had a wonderful time at the Workshop on Humans, Deep Networks & Face and Body Recognition in London, where I got to present my new work and meet so many amazing scientists. |
| Feb, 2026 | Happy to share a new preprint with Katharina Dobs! We show that face and body processing are partially integrated in DNNs and visual cortex. Check out this thread for a quick summary. |