Tatjana Tchumatchenko

Tatjana Tchumatchenko (born 1980) is a German physicist in the field of theoretical neuroscience. She is a professor of physiological chemistry at the University of Mainz and a research group leader at the University Hospital of Bonn, Germany.[1] In her research she investigates how neural networks compute and how particular activity patterns emerge from synaptic and neuronal features.

Education and early research

In 2006, Tchumatchenko obtained her diploma in physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany). In 2010, she completed the Graduate Program “Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience” at the Göttingen Graduate Center for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences[2] at Göttingen University (Germany), and received the degree of Dr. rer. nat in physics. In 2011, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow with a joint appointment at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization and the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen.[3] From 2011 to 2013, Tatjana Tchumatchenko was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience[4] at Columbia University in the City of New York, USA, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.

Career

In 2013, Tchumatchenko became an Independent Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research (Germany). Starting in November 2020, she served as a professor of computational neuroscience of behavior at the University of Bonn’s School of Medicine. Since October 2021, she has been a professor and deputy director at the Institute of Physiological Chemistry at the University Medical Center of the University of Mainz, as well as a research group leader at the University Hospital of Bonn.[1]

Her group „Theory of neural dynamics”[5] focuses on the computational modelling and mathematical analysis of single neurons, neuronal populations, and recurrent networks. The Tchumatchenko group employs mathematical tools and computer simulations to investigate how single neurons and populations respond to their synaptic inputs, and how they interact to give rise to functioning neuronal circuits.

Selected memberships

  • Bernstein Network for Computational Neuroscience[6]
  • International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Neural Circuits[7]
  • German-Ukrainian Academic Society[8]

Selected Awards and Honours

References

  1. 1 2 "Prof. Dr. Tatjana Tchumatchenko | nwg-info.de". nwg-info.de (in German). Retrieved 2026-08-28.
  2. ↑ Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen-. "Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen". www.uni-goettingen.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-29.
  3. ↑ Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen-. "Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen". www.uni-goettingen.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-29.
  4. ↑ "Center for Theoretical Neuroscience". ctn.zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
  5. ↑ "Tatjana Tchumatchenko". www.tchumatchenko.de. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
  6. ↑ "Willkommen beim Bernstein Netzwerk Computational Neuroscience — Bernstein Netzwerk Computational Neuroscience". www.bernstein-network.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-29.
  7. ↑ "IMPRS Faculty". brain.mpg.de. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
  8. ↑ "The German-Ukrainian Academic Society". Retrieved 2020-12-30.
  9. ↑ "Tchumatchenko". Young Academy of Europe. 2020-04-09. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
  10. ↑ "ERC Starting Grant für Tatjana Tchumatchenko — Bernstein Netzwerk Computational Neuroscience". www.bernstein-network.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-29.
  11. ↑ "25 Menschen für die nächsten fünfundzwanzig Jahre". FOCUS Online (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-29.
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