M.Sc., PhD Student
Simon joined the lab as a PhD student in March 2025 where he is working on computational modeling of longitudinal behavioral data and the effects of brain stimulation (tVNS, TMS) on reward-related behavior. He is particularly interested in reinforcement learning and how it fluctuates over time.
Simon studied Psychology at the University of Cologne where he completed his bachelor’s degree in 2022 and his master’s degree in 2024. In his master thesis, he studied the effects of prior choices in hierarchical Bayesian models on different Bayesian inference methods. During his studies, he worked as a student research assistant in the labs of Jan Peters (Biological Psychology) and Andreas Glöckner (Social Psychology). For a research internship in March 2024, he also joined the Vision and Computational Cognition Group of Martin Hebart at the MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig.