I’m Marius Schneider, a postdoctoral researcher in the Bionic Vision Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara. My research explores how the brain extracts and integrates sensory information from complex, dynamic environments to guide behavior and navigation.

I earned my PhD in Systems and Computational Neuroscience at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Frankfurt, affiliated with the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Neural Circuits. I defended my thesis with highest honors at Radboud University Nijmegen in May 2024. During my PhD, I developed a theoretical model of inter-areal coherence that offers an alternative explanation for widely observed patterns in functional connectivity, contributing to ongoing debates on the role of neural oscillations in communication.

More recently, my research has focused on computation during natural behavior, where I build models that integrate visual input, different behaviors, and neural activity to study how sensory encoding adapts during naturalistic exploration. My long-term goal is to bridge controlled laboratory paradigms with ecologically relevant behavior by developing computational models that reveal how sensory encoding, latent internal states, and ongoing behavior shape each other during real-world interaction with the environment.

Publications

(* equal contribution)

	Distinct feedforward and feedback pathways for cell-type specific attention effects Georgios Spyropoulos*, Marius Schneider* , Jochem van Kempen, Marc Alwin Gieselmann, Alexander Thiele, Martin Vinck Neuron, Volume 112, Issue 14, July 2024 Paper | Preprint | Tweetprint
	A mechanism for inter-areal coherence through communication based on connectivity and oscillatory power Marius Schneider, Ana Clara Broggini, Benjamin Dann, Athanasia Tzanou, Cem Uran, Swathi Sheshadri, Hansjörg Scherberger, Martin Vinck Neuron, Volume 109, Issue 24, December 2021 Paper | Code | Talk | Preprint | Tweetprint
	Cell-type-specific propagation of visual flicker Marius Schneider , Athanasia Tzanou, Cem Uran, Martin Vinck Cell Reports, Volume 42, Issue 5, May 2023 Paper | Code | Preprint | Tweetprint
	Biological complexity facilitates tuning of the neuronal parameter space Marius Schneider, Alex D Bird, Albert Gidon, Jochen Triesch, Peter Jedlicka, Hermann Cuntz PLoS Computational Biology, Volume 19, July 2023 Paper | Code | Preprint | Tweetprint
	A general principle of dendritic constancy: A neuron’s size-and shape-invariant excitability Hermann Cuntz, Alex D Bird, Martin Mittag, Marcel Beining, Marius Schneider, Laura Mediavilla, Felix Z Hoffmann, Thomas Deller, Peter Jedlicka Neuron, Volume 109, Issue 22, November 2021 Paper | Code | Tweetprint
	Principles of large-scale neural interactions Martin Vinck, Cem Uran, Georgios Spyropoulos, Irene Onorato, Ana Clara Broggini, Marius Schneider, Andres Canales-Johnson Neuron, Volume 111, Issue 7, April 2023 Paper
	Attentional modulation of inter-areal coherence explained by frequency shifts Jarrod Robert Dowdall, Marius Schneider, Martin Vinck Neuroimage, June 2023 Paper
	Aperiodic processes explaining rhythms in behavior: A matter of false detection or definition? Martin Vinck, Cem Uran, Marius Schneider Nature Human Behavior, pending minor revision. Paper | Code | Tweetprint
	Distinct roles of PV and Sst interneurons in visually-induced gamma oscillations Irene Onorato, Athanasia Tzanou, Marius Schneider, Cem Uran, Ana Clara Broggini, Martin Vinck Cell reports, in press Paper | Tweetprint

Teaching

Neuromatch Academy: Computational Neuroscience 2022
Teaching Assistant, theoretical modeling and data-driven analyses
7th Baltic-Nordic School on Neuroinformatics BNN, FIAS Frankfurt am Main, 2019
Teaching Assistant, Modeling Healthy and Diseased Brain: From Dendrites to Neurons and Networks
Undergraduate Mentor, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, 2019
Supervision of Bachelor's thesis
Computational Neurobiology, Undergraduate course, Goethe University, Biological Sciences, 2018
Teaching Assistant with Hermann Cuntz, Specialisation 2 ”fly motion vision”.

Talks

Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany, 2022
Do neurons communicate through coherence?
Neuromatch Conference, Zoom, 2021
A mechanism for inter-areal coherence through communication based on connectivity and oscillatory power
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Mini Projects

IBRO-Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo Summer School, Cape Town, South Africa,2022
A small project on reinforcement learning, Code


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