Team

Alexander van Meegen

Group Leader

I am an assistant professor (W1) in the Department of Physics at RWTH Aachen. Previously, I was PostDoc at EPFL in Wulfram Gerstner’s Lab and Swartz Fellow at Harvard’s Center for Brain Science working with Haim Sompolinsky.

Office: MBP 112, Otto-Blumenthal-Str. 12, 52074 Aachen
Phone: +49 241 80-40310
Mail: alexander.van.meegen@rwth-aachen.de
Website: alexvanmeegen.github.io

Max Wollgarten

PhD Student

I am a physics PhD student at RWTH Aachen University. During my master’s, I specialized in theoretical particle physics, in particular soft quantum chromodynamics. My first encounter with neuroscience-related topics came two years earlier, during my bachelor’s thesis. As machine learning advanced, my interest in this area grew, leading me to also study the statistical physics of neural networks over the past few years. Its present and future relevance motivated me to pursue a career in this field.

Office: 26C 405, Sommerfeldstr. 16, 52074 Aachen
Phone: +49 241 80-40311
Mail: max.wollgarten@rwth-aachen.de

Maximilian Schwabe

PhD Student

I am a PhD student in physics at RWTH Aachen. In my master studies, I specialized in theoretical biophysics. Dealing with problems from applied machine learning and computational neuroscience during my Bachelor’s and Master’s thesis got me interested in how to ground a theory of structure formation in neural networks in concepts from statistical physics and dynamical systems theory. Right now, my focus lies on the statistical mechanics of RNNs in the feature-learning regime, as well as in building bridges between neural network theory and neurobiology.

Office: 26C 405, Sommerfeldstr. 16, 52074 Aachen
Phone: +49 241 80-40311
Mail: maximilian.schwabe@rwth-aachen.de

Timm Vordermark

MSc Student

I am currently a physics master student at RWTH Aachen within the condensed matter theory track, writing my master thesis at Alexander van Meegen’s Lab. Previously I finished a M.Sc. in Finance at NOVA SBE in Lisbon after completing my Bachelor in Physics at RWTH. My research interests are in the area of statistical mechanics of neural networks, specifically focussing on the dynamics of Recurrent Neural Networks.

Office: 26C 405, Sommerfeldstr. 16, 52074 Aachen
Phone: +49 241 80-40311
Mail: timm.vordermark@rwth-aachen.de

Dimitar Martinov

BSc Student

I am currently a Bachelor’s student in Physics at RWTH Aachen University. My interests lie in theoretical physics, particularly in statistical physics and its application to neural networks.

Office: 26C 405, Sommerfeldstr. 16, 52074 Aachen
Phone: +49 241 80-40311
Mail: dimitar.martinov@rwth-aachen.de