Martin A. Vinck

Prof. Dr. Martin Vinck is a Professor at the Donders Centre for Neuroscience in the Department of Neurophysics, Radboud University. He is also a Research Group Leader at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience and a faculty member at the International Max Planck Research School for Neural Circuits.

• Current affiliations: Radboud University, ESI Frankfurt, Max Planck Research School
• Positions: Professor, Research Group Leader, Review Editor for eLife

Research Interests span computational and systems neuroscience, focusing on predictive processing in biological and artificial neural networks. His lab investigates:

• How distinct excitatory/inhibitory neurons regulate plasticity and flexible information processing
• Neural ensemble coding via spatio-temporal patterns and spike sequences
• Self-supervised learning mechanisms using spatial/temporal predictions
• Gamma oscillations, synchronization, and their role in visual encoding

Scientific Contributions include developing algorithms for high-dimensional neural data analysis, co-supervising key studies on interneuron dynamics, and pioneering work on predictive coding in V1. His grants include the ERC Starting Grant (2019) and VIDI Grant (2024).

Lab Members include PhD students Jinke Liu, Jahan Esfandiarii, Athanasia Tzanou and alumni Irene Onorato, Marius Schneider, Ana Clara Silveira Broggini. He actively promotes open science, develops the Spike Toolbox, and reviews for journals like Neuron, eLife, PLoS Computational Biology.