Hi, I'm Jascha Achterberg, a Computational Neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge.

As a PhD student at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, I study the connection of biological and artificial intelligence. Using large scale electrophysiological, neuroimaging, and behavioural data, recorded in humans and non-human primates, I work out which features underlie highly functional brains to translate them into neuroscience-inspired artificial neural networks (NeuroAI). With this I hope to understand the general principles underlying computation in biological and artificial networks.

To achieve this very interdisciplinary goal, I am supervised by John Duncan (Cambridge) and Matthew Botvinick (Google DeepMind). My research is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. I am also a part of the NeuroAI research team at Intel Labs.

Alongside my basic research, I am working with my colleague Danyal Akarca to translate our models and findings from computational neuroscience to improve mental health diagnostics and treatment. Through our project Psynergy Mental Health we collaborate with the NHS and Cambridge Enterprise to make our solutions available to the public.