Julijana Gjorgjieva

About me

Since June 2011, I have been working as a postdoc with Professors Markus Meister and Haim Sompolinsky at Harvard University. Before that, I did my PhD work with Dr Stephen Eglen titled "Spontaneous Activity and Plasticity in the Developing Nervous System." During my PhD, I have also spent three short-term research visits to the lab of Prof. Adrienne Fairhall at the Univeristy of Washington in Seattle.

I am interested in many different aspects of computational neuroscience. During my PhD I have focused on plasticity in the developing nervous system: analyzing non-linear learning rules such as spike-timing dependent plasticity, and also the usefulness of these rules to explain synaptic refinements and tuning of circuits driven by spontaneous activity. My work now examines the forms of efficient computation performed by the retina.

Education

• Harvard Univeristy, Cambridge, MA
  
  • Jun 2011 - present, postdoc
  
  
• University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  
  • Oct 2007 - Jun 2011, PhD (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics)
    
  • Oct 2006 - Jun 2007, Master of Advanced Studies in Mathematics (Distinction)
  
  
• University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  
  • Feb 2011 - May 2011, visiting research student (Department of Physiology and Biophysics)
    
  • Mar 2010 - May 2010, visiting research student
    
  • Mar 2009 - Apr 2009, visiting research student
  
  
• Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
  
  • Sep 2002 - May 2006, Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics (High Distinction)
  
  
• The Hill School, Pottstown, PA
  
  • Aug 2000 - June 2001, High School (year abroad, ASSIST scholar)
  
  
• Gimnazija Dobri Daskalov, Kavadarci, Macedonia
  
  • Sep 1998 - June 2002, High School