Dr. Roxana Zeraati

Minerva Fast Track Group Leader

Dr. Roxana Zeraati began her academic journey as a double-major bachelor's student of physics and biomedical engineering (Amirkabir University of Technology, 2006-2011) and then transitioned to neuroscience for her master's (University of Tübingen, IMPRS CSN, 2016-2018) and PhD (University of Tübingen, IMPRS MMFD, 2019-2025). During her PhD, co-supervised by Prof. Anna Levina (University of Tübingen) and Prof. Tatiana Engel (Princeton University), she studied how diverse timescales of neural dynamics support adaptive behavior and computation in the mammalian brain and in artificial neural networks. In her postdoc (2024-2026), supervised by Prof. Peter Dayan, she expanded her research in a new direction by investigating how neural and behavioral timescales emerge and relate to environmental dynamics, focusing on their interplay during foraging. Since 2026, she is a Minerva Fast Track Group Leader at the MPI for Biological Cybernetics. For her research, she has received several awards and fellowships, including the Attempto Award, the Joachim Herz add-on fellowship, the Klaus Tschira Boost Fund, and the Minerva Fast Track Fellowship.