I am half German, and half Finnish. I did my bachelor's in Sociology in the UK, and currently am doing a Master's in Neural and Behavioural Science in Tübingen, Germany. 

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Throughout my bachelor's, I did a placement year at the British Neuroscience Association and carried out mirror-self-recognition experiments in great apes at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. I also started two podcasts, wrote lots for my blog, and in my bachelor's dissertation studied how time perception, as reported in online drug experience testimonials, differs across drug clusters - see more details here.

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In my master's, I am learning a lot about systems neuroscience with a particular emphasis on audition, vocal communication, (computational) motor control, electrophysiology and comparative neuroanatomy. And to make sense of it all, I try to learn it "in the light of evolution". Our master's program consists of two lab rotations. In the first, I am working with Lena Veit on rhythmicity in Bengalese Finch song. In my second rotation, Master's thesis, and maybe PhD, supervised by Felix Moll, I will study live-behaving crows with electrophysiological methods as they perform a tool-use task. 

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In my free time, I also enjoy running, dancing, and playing spikeball. In the UK, I was very active in our debating and philosophy society. Now, I try to keep up with that debating at conferences or with my nerdy science friend Samuel. :)

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For other academic stuff, see also my CV.

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