Kristine Heiney, PhD

I am a computational neuroscientist with a background in engineering and physics. My research is focused on understanding neural computation across scales: how interactions among neurons produce population-level information representations. I approach this question through data analysis and data-driven modeling.

I am currently working as an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral research fellow in Prof. Henning Sprekeler’s group at the Technical University of Berlin. In this project, we are studying the role of inhibition in representational drift.

In June 2023, I successfully defended my PhD at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). I carried out my doctoral work under the supervision of Prof. Stefano Nichele at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet). In 2022, I spent six months visiting Prof. Timothy O’Leary’s group at the University of Cambridge. I earned my Master in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Porto in 2018, with thesis work conducted under the supervision of Dr. Paulo Aguiar at the Institute for Research and Innovation in Health (i3S), and my Bachelor in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University in 2010.

Kristine Heiney