Since late 2018 I study the dynamics and plasticity of neural networks in the group of Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer, first as a PhD student, working on “Biologically plausible plasticity and dynamics in neural networks”, and since mid 2025 as a PostDoc. Before, I studied physics at the university of Bonn, with a focus on theoretical condensed matter physics, writing a master’s thesis “effects of interactions on topological Kondo insulators” in the group of Prof. Kroha.
Having worked with rate-based and mostly linear neural networks that allowed a precise mathematical understanding of their weight- and activity dynamics in my PhD, in my PostDoc I turn to spiking neural networks, which are inherently discontinuous and nonlinear, posing interesting challenges.
Publications
P. Züge, N. Schieferstein, and R.-M. Memmesheimer (2025)
Cooperative coding of continuous variables in networks with sparsity constraint
PLoS Comput. Biol., 21(7): e1012156
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P. Züge, C. Klos, and R.-M. Memmesheimer (2023)
Weight versus Node Perturbation Learning in Temporally Extended Tasks:
Weight Perturbation Often Performs Similarly or Better
Phys. Rev. X, 13, 021006.
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Neural network dynamics and computation 