Studying dynamical systems in the brain.
TUM Computer Science Stanford Brain Dynamics Lab
Using computational models of naturalistic neuroimaging to understand how shared brain dynamics give rise to person-specific responses.
How dynamical and computational models can explain individual differences in cognition and psychiatric dysfunction, and how meditation moves the brain from one state to another.
The Zinalrothorn, 4221 m, from St-Jean, photographed by Raphael Hauser. At night it is the sky above it at 01:35 on 17 May 2026, when the centre of the Milky Way rises behind the summit, with stars from the Yale Bright Star Catalogue and ESA/Gaia/DPAC.
The lights on the mountain are a network of model neurons held near criticality, the regime cortex is thought to run in. The station is a Stanford torus, the 1975 NASA and Stanford design for a settlement in space.
The ground is modelled from swissALTI3D, © swisstopo, and Copernicus WorldDEM-30, © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.