Jan Bauer

Jan Bauer

PhD student in Theoretical Neuroscience

ELSC, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

About

I am a PhD student in Jonathan Kadmon’s group in Jerusalem, studying the cognitive implications of chaos in the brain. Before that, I worked with Moritz Helias to build a theoretical framework based on the kernel method to disentangle apparently conflicting sides to chaos: Expressivity by virtue of its high-dimensional dynamics and instability due to the entailed sensitivity to initial conditions.
More broadly, I am excited about the synergies between artificial and biological neural systems that have empowered both machine learning and neuroscience throughout their history.

Education
  • PhD student in Theoretical Neuroscience, 2022–

    ELSC, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

  • MSc in Statistical Physics, 2019–2022

    Juelich Research Center, Germany

  • BSc in Physics, 2016–2019

    RWTH Aachen University, Germany