M.Sc. Oliver Maith

PhD Student / Researcher in Computational Neuroscience

  Work Experience

Researcher, Chemnitz University of Technology

  Nov 2019 – Current

At Professorship Artificial Intelligence

I primarily develop neural networks using the ANNarchy neural simulator in Python and produce scientific documents.

  • Research:
    • Computational Neuroscience: basal ganglia, visual attention
    • Psychophysics: eye-tracking
    • Neuroinformatics: simulating BOLD1 and DBS2

Lecturer, Chemnitz University of Technology

  Jul 2016 – Mar 2019

At Institute of Physics

I have taught experimental physics to students from 1st to 12th grade and supervised them during hands-on physics experiments.

  Education

Ph.D.

  2020 – Current

At Chemnitz University of Technology

in Computer Science

Network Mechanisms of Action of Deep Brain Stimulation inferred from resting-state fMRI using a spiking neural model of the whole Basal Ganglia

Supervisor: Prof. Fred Hamker

Master of Science

  2017 – 2019

At Chemnitz University of Technology

in Sensors & Cognitive Psychology

Precise feature gain tuning in visual search tasks - the basal ganglia makes it possible: A neuro-computational study

Supervisor: Prof. Fred Hamker, M.Sc. Alex Schwarz

Bachelor of Science

  2014 – 2017

At Chemnitz University of Technology

in Sensors & Cognitive Psychology

Changes in the probabilities of explored alternative actions due to the plasticity of the STN - GPe loop: a basal ganglia neuro- computational model

Supervisor: Prof. Fred Hamker, Dr. Javier Baladron

  Funding and Awards

SPP 2134

“Dynamic and adaptive body schema by learning to predict the sensory consequences of actions.”

Role: Research

SFB 1410

“Learning Flexible Decision Making and Motor Control in Robots for Human-Robot Interaction”

Role: Research

BMBF 01GQ1707

“Multi-level computer modeling of basal ganglia dysfunction in Tourette syndrome”

Role: Research

SPP 2041

“Clinical Connectomics: A network approach to deep brain stimulation”

Role: Research

  Skills

Languages

German, English

Office

Linux, VS Code, Git, Windows, MS Office, Inkscape, Latex, Quarto, SPSS

Programming

Python, Matlab, R, Mathematica, C++, Arduino, HTML

Back to top

Footnotes

  1. Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent (BOLD) imaging is a technique that is commonly used for measuring brain activity in humans using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)↩︎

  2. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a surgical procedure that implants a neurostimulator and electrodes which sends electrical impulses to specified targets in the brain↩︎