Biography

Over the course of my studies, my passion for understanding and facilitating development broadened from the level of the individual mind to the systems that constitute and embed it. Through the lens of complexity and information theory, I became convinced that formalising an interdisciplinary language for self-organisation in intelligent systems remains a key issue across the various fields that study cognition. How is cognitive development and function facilitated by adaptive information channeling? This is the question driving my curiosity about intelligent adaptation in natural and artificial systems. As the boundary between analogue and digital intelligence becomes increasingly blurred, I believe that their joint investigation under a shared theoretical language promises a better grip on how we can facilitate their harmonious integration. My PhD therefore is dedicated to aligning neuronal cultures in vitro and spiking neural networks in experimental paradigms, theoretical language and mechanistic constraints. In this way, I hope to contribute to our ability to create synergies with systems of nature and of our own making.