We are excited to welcome Hilde, who has joined the AssemblingLife project as a new PhD student, bringing fresh perspectives from neuroscience!
Hilde is from Oslo, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in bioscience at UiO. She then completed her MSc in neuroscience at UCL.
Her master thesis focused on implicit statistical learning in mice and humans. During her one-year neurobiology PhD journey in Marseille, Hilde further investigated how the mouse secondary visual cortex integrates visual and vestibular stimuli within the predictive processing framework, with a particular focus on the role of the neuromodulator serotonin. Through this, she sought abetter understanding of perception. This gave her a solid foundation to carry out her research on self-assembly processes in the brain. As a member of the AssemblingLife project, Hilde will explore the explanatory role and scope of the predictive processing framework. She aims to identify self-assembly processes in the brain and examine what is required to incorporate them into an explanation of brain function. She hopes these phenomena will help us better understand the brain and mind, whatever understanding these could possibly mean.
Beyond her research, Hilde is fascinated by complex and seemingly incomprehensible systems, such as the brain. She is also interested in questions like what constitutes a biological (or any) self and an individual, and how these concepts can be nested and dynamic.
Aside from her passion for brain and perception, Hilde likes reading good literature, watching okay films, writing things in brackets, and moving at a leisurely pace, but have little time for all that as she usually ends up looking out of the window instead.
We are thrilled to have Hilde on board with the AssemblingLife project!