I joined the lab as a PhD candidate in December 2025. Before that, I studied Psychology at the Jagiellonian University. In my master’s thesis, I collaborated with MPI Leipzig to investigate functional plasticity of blind peoples’ visual regions through fMRI. I also worked at the Center for Brain Research JU on projects concerning perception of natural scenes.

In my current research, I focus on human visual development and comparisons to artificial networks. My research is funded by a BMBF grant as part of the GROWUPAI project.

Besides science, I enjoy art of every kind - especially music, literature and film - as well as coding and sport.

Research

General research interests

I want to understand how visual perception develops as a tool for building a working model of the world. This includes learning how to categorize objects and connect incoming visual information with existing knowledge structures, for example those contained in language. I’m also interested in how information is processed in natural versus artificial networks, and how these comparisons can inform our understanding of the role of developmental and biological constraints in shaping human vision.

Research projects

During my PhD, I want to develop two projects:

Project 1 will use EEG, multivariate analyses and decoding to probe category learning in the first few months of life, in association with Prof. Dr. Köster (University of Regensburg).

Project 2 will be looking into development of representations in deep neural networks in comparison to human developmental data, in association with Prof. Dr. Roig (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt).

More information will be added later.

Student supervision & opportunities

I currently have no supervised students. If you are interested in some of the topics I am working on, feel free to email me.