Roxana Zeraati
Contact
University of Tübingen
Maria von Linden Str. 6,
2nd floor
Email-address: roxana.zeraati @uni-tuebingen.de
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Main research:
- Brain dynamics and self-organized criticality
- Relationship between local and global neural dynamics by investigating multi-modal signals (e.g. spikes, LFP, and BOLD)
- Relationship between network structure and temporal correlations
Short CV
since 2019
PhD student in Computational Neuroscience
Graduate Training Center of Neuroscience, University of Tübingen
2018 - 2019
SMARTSTART 2 Fellow
Funded by Bernstein Network for Computational Neuroscience and the Volkswagen Foundation
2016 - 2018
M.Sc. in Neural Information Processing
Graduate Training Center of Neuroscience, University of Tübingen
2011 - 2016
B.Sc. in Physics and Biomedical Engineering (double major)
Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)
Selected publications:
Journal Articles
- Zeraati, R., Engel, TA., Levina, A. (2022) A flexible Bayesian framework for unbiased estimation of timescales,
Nature Computational Science 2 (3), 193-204 (link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-022-00214-3) - Zeraati, R., Priesemann, V., Levina, A. (2021). Self-organization toward criticality by synaptic plasticity. Front. Phys. (https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2021.619661)
- Diamantaki, M., Coletta, S., Nasr, K., Zeraati, R., Laturnus, S., Berens, P., Preston-Ferrer, P. and Burgalossi, A. (2018). Manipulating hippocampal place cell activity by single-cell stimulation in freely moving mice. Cell reports, 23(1), pp.32-38. DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.03.031 (link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124718303735)
- Coletta, S., Zeraati, R., Nasr, K., Preston-Ferrer, P. and Burgalossi, A. (2018). Interspike interval analysis and spikelets in presubicular head-direction cells. Journal of neurophysiology, 120(2), pp.564-575. DOI: 10.1152/jn.00019.2018 (link: https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jn.00019.2018)
- Bakouie, F., Pishnamazi, M., Zeraati, R. and Gharibzadeh, S. (2017). Scale-freeness of dominant and piecemeal perceptions during binocular rivalry. Cognitive neurodynamics, 11(4), pp.319-326. DOI: 10.1007/s11571-017-9434-4 (link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11571-017-9434-4)
Talks
- Zeraati, R., Steinmetz, N., Moore, T., Engel, T., Levina, A. (2019). Signatures of network structure in timescales of spontaneous activity [Featured talk at Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS), Barcelona, Spain].
- Zeraati, R., Engel, T., & Levina, A. (2018). Critical avalanches in a spatially structured model of cortical On-Off dynamics [Talk at German Physical Society Meeting (DPG), Regensburg, Germany].
Posters
- Zeraati, R., Shi, Y., Gieselmann, M., Steinmetz, N., Moore, T., Thiele, A., Engel, T., & Levina, A. (2020) Timescales of ongoing activity reflect local connectivity and are modulated during attention [Poster presented at Cosyne, Denver, USA].
- Shi, Y., Zeraati, R, Levina, A. (2020) Spatiotemporal neural correlations and network dynamics [Poster presented at Cosyne, Denver, USA].
- Zeraati, R., Steinmetz, N., Moore, T., Engel, T., & Levina, A. (2019). Timescales of spontaneous cortical dynamics reflect the underlying spatial network structure [Poster presented at Bernstein Conference, Berlin, Germany].
- Zeraati, R., Steinmetz, N., Moore, T., Engel, T., & Levina, A. (2019). Impact of local connectivity on spatiotemporal patterns of spontaneous neural dynamics [Poster presented at Camillo Golgi Summer School, Erice, Italy].
- Zeraati, R., Engel, T., & Levina, A. (2018). Critical avalanches in a spatially structured model of cortical On-Off dynamics [Poster presented at Bernstein Conference, Berlin, Germany].
Teaching
- Teaching assistant for Neural Coding course (Summer Semester 2020, Graduate Training Center of Neuroscience, University of Tübingen)
- Teaching assistant for Neural Coding course (Summer Semester 2019, Graduate Training Center of Neuroscience, University of Tübingen)
- Teaching assistant for Introduction to Biomedical Engineering course (Winter Semester 2015-2016, Amirkabir University of Technology)
- Teaching assistant for Electronics I course (Winter Semester 2015-2016, Amirkabir University of Technology)