Lenny van Dyck
PhD Candidate
Hi, and welcome to my website!
I’m Lenny, a third-year PhD candidate in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience at JLU Giessen. I work with Katharina Dobs in the Visual Cognition and Computational Neuroscience Lab.
In my research, I investigate how the brain transforms sensory input into meaningful representations. I’m particularly fascinated by functionally selective regions that perform specialized computations to solve this complex task. With a foundation in cognitive neuroscience and a growing passion for deep 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 spend time in the mountains or travel the planet in a campervan.
News
| Jun, 2026 | I’m so 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!  |
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| 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 representations are partially integrated in DNNs and human visual cortex. Check out this thread for a quick summary. |
| Nov, 2025 | I really enjoyed writing a commentary with Katharina Dobs on a thought-provoking discussion article in Cognitive Neuroscience. |