Reverse engineering cortical circuits
Principal Investigator
Koen Vervaeke, Associate Professor of Medicine
2011-2014 Janelia Farm Junior Fellow (mentors Karel Svoboda and Jeff Magee)
2007-2011 Postdoc, University College London (Angus Silver lab)
2002-2007 PhD in Physiology, Oslo University (Johan Storm Lab)
Lab Manager
Kristin Larsen Sand
Junior Group Leaders
Dr. Anna Chambers
Studied neuroscience and has a PhD degree from Harvard University (Daniel Polley lab).
Leads a research project funded by a Young Research Talents grant from the Norwegian Research Council.
Postdoctoral students
Dr. Nora Lenkey
Studied medicine at the Semmelweis University in Budapest and joined us after her postdoc position with Zoltan Nusser (KOKI, Budapest)
Dr. Mate Neubrandt
Studied Biology at the E. Lorand University in Budapest and got his PhD in the lab of Janos Szabadics at the Institute of Experimental Medicine in Budapest.
Dr. Aree Witoelaar
Studied Physics in Groningen and got his PhD in machine learning from Groningen University. Did a postdoc in the lab of Yasser Roudi (Kavli Institute, NTNU), and with Ole Andreasen (Oslo University Hospital).
PhD fellows
Eivind Hennestad
Studied Physics at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.
Andreas Lande
Studied Neuroscience at the Norwegian Technical Univerisity (NTNU).
Christoffer Berge (Anna Chambers group)
Studied psychology at the Norwegian Technical Univerisity (NTNU).
Ann-Christin Garvert
Studied Physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU, Munich, Germany).
Nora Cecilie Ebbesen
Studied Neuroscience at the Norwegian Technical Univerisity (NTNU).
Sondre Jordbræk
Studied Neuroscience at the Norwegian Technical Univerisity (NTNU).
Alumni
Rune Lanton.
Chief Technology Officer, Zeekit AS.
Malte Bieler
Data Scientist, Unacast, Oslo.
Birgit Kriener
Researcher, Computational Oncology group, NCMM Oslo.
Michele Gianatti
PhD student 2018-2022 (Defended thesis in 2022). Now Astra Zeneca, Milan (Rare Neurological disorders).