I completed my BSc and MSc in Physics at Goethe University Frankfurt, including a year abroad at Copenhagen University. I earned my PhD in Physics from Goethe University in 2022, with an affiliation to the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, specializing in theoretical and computational neuroscience. After my PhD, I stayed in Frankfurt as a postdoctoral researcher until 2024, during which I spent two months at the Institut de la Vision in Paris in 2023. Since 2024, I have been a postdoctoral researcher in Alex Roxin's lab at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM).

My primary research focus is on representational drift—investigating its mechanisms and its implications for complex cognitive phenomena such as learning, forgetting, and memory formation, and its potential role in creativity. My work integrates computational modeling with the analysis of experimental data.

Theoretical Neuroscience

At CRM, Alex Roxin and I are collaborating with Yingxue Wang’s lab at the Max Planck Florida Institute to explore drift, memory formation, and the role of acetylcholine in these processes, using data from the mouse hippocampus.

Aschauer, D. F., Eppler, J.-B., Ewig, L., Chambers, A. R., Pokorny, C., Kaschube, M., & Rumpel, S. (2022). Learning-induced biases in the ongoing dynamics of sensory representations predict stimulus generalization. Cell Reports, 38(6). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110340

Chambers, A. R., Aschauer, D. F., Eppler, J.-B., Kaschube, M., & Rumpel, S. (2023). A stable sensory map emerges from a dynamic equilibrium of neurons with unstable tuning properties. Cerebral Cortex, 33(9), 5597-5612. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac445

Noda, T., Kienle, E., Eppler, J.-B., Aschauer, D. F., Kaschube, M., Loewenstein, Y., & Rumpel, S. (2023). Homeostasis of a representational map in the neocortex. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.13.544358