Patricia Rubisch

Patricia Rubisch

PostDoctoral Researcher

Medical School Berlin

Biography

I am a PostDoctoral researcher in the group of Melanie Stefan at Medical School Berlin. My research interests are focused on the biological processes of learning. I hope to elucidate the role of temporal and spatial signalling within the plasticity cascades in health and disease using modeling tools and abstractions in order to translate the low-level detailed results into functional learning models spanning networks and brain areas which I studied during my PhD at the University of Edinburgh under supervision of Matthias Hennig. Apart from active research, I believe that the transfer of knowledge and inter-disciplinary communication is central for the scientific process and reducing boundaries.

My research is focused on models of synaptic plasticity in multi-scale models to investigate the functional role of synaptic heterogeneity. Previously I have worked on voltage-dependent plasticity with Matthias Hennig at the Univeristy of Edinburgh which sparked my interest for the role of inhibitory regulation of long term plasticity.

Interests
  • Synaptic Plasticity
  • Models of Learning in the healthy and diseased brain
  • Synaptopathologies
  • Multi-scale modelling
  • Spiking Neural Networks
  • Biological credit assingment
Education
  • PhD in Computational Neuroscience, 2024

    University of Edinburgh

  • MScR in Computational Neuroscience, 2019

    Univeristy of Edinburgh

  • BSc in Cognitive Science, 2018

    Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
PostDoctoral Researcher
Medical School Berlin
December 2023 – Present Berlin, Germany
Investigating the influence of synaptic heterogeneity on plasticity induction at the Stefan Lab.
 
 
 
 
 
Teaching Assistant
University of Edinburgh
September 2019 – October 2023 Edinburgh, UK
Providing teaching support for various courses. Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (Teaching Assistant), Neural Computation (Marker), Introduction to Cognitive Science (Tutor, Demonstrator, Marker)
 
 
 
 
 
Student Research Assistant
AG Neural Information Processing, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
December 2015 – September 2018 Tübingen, Germany
Implementation and execution of psychophysics experiments.

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