Education

• Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience, Julijana Gjorgjieva Group, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research Frankfurt, School of Life Sciences Technical University Munich 2019-2023

• M.Sc. in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience, Goethe University Frankfurt, 2016-2018

• B.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Vienna, 2012-2016

• B.Sc. in Physics, University of Vienna, 2012-2016

 

Research Experience

Post-doctoral Fellow

• Postdoctoral Fellow in Brent Doiron group, University of Chicago, 2023-today

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Research Stays and Internships

• Research stay in the lab of Hillel Adesnik at UC Berkeley (Sept 2024)

• Research stay in the lab of Na Ji at UC Berkeley (Sept 2024)

• Research stay in the lab of Robert Froemke at NYU (Mar 2020)

• Internship in the lab of Benjamin Gagl at Goethe Uni Frankfurt (Sept 2017 - Jun 2018)

• Internship in the lab of Jochen Triesch at FIAS Frankfurt (Jun-Aug 2017)

• Internship in the lab of Tatjana Tchumatchenko at MPI for Brain Research (Apr-Jun 2017)

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Fellowships/Awards

• Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) 3 year Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024-2027)

• Poster prize (#1) at GRC on Inhibition in the CNS conference (Jul 2025)

• Poster prize (#1) at the Sculpted Light in the Brain (SLB) conference (Jun 2024)

• Sculpted Light in the Brain (SLB) Conference Travel Award (Jun 2024)

• BSD Career Advancement for Postdocs Travel Award (May 2024)

• PhD thesis awarded with highest distinction (summa cum laude) (Feb 2023)

• Ninth-generation IMPRS doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research Frankfurt (2019)

• Excellence fellowship from the government of Lower Austria “TOP‑Stipendium” to fund M.Sc. abroad (2018)

• SmartStart 1 training program for Computational Neuroscience of the Bernstein Network (2017-2018)

 

Professional Experience and Service

Talks

• Assembly-based computations through contextual dendritic gating of plasticity. Talk at: Spiking Neural Networks As Universal Function Approximators (SNUFA) workshop, 2025 Nov, online. Link to video on youtube.

• Incorporating Inhibition into Recurrent Neural Network Models for Biological Realism. Talk at: Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Inhibition in the CNS, 2025 Jul, Maine.

• State-dependent dynamics and plasticity gating in inhibitory circuits. Talk at: NITMB Research-in-progress meeting, 2024 Sept, Chicago.

• Inhibitory gating of non-linear dendrites enables stable learning of assemblies without forgetting. Talk at: ICNWO workshop, 2024 Apr, online.

• Functional roles of inhibitory plasticity: stability, control of excitatory plasticity, and beyond. Talk at: COSYNE Workshop "Shaping circuit functions via plastic and diverse inhibition", 2023 Mar, Mont-Tremblant.

• Inhibitory long-term plasticity: homeostasis and beyond. Talk at: CRC 1080 autumn event, 2022 Oct, Frankfurt.

• The role of adaptation in neuronal coding. Talk at: Workshop on "Adaptivity in nonlinear dynamical systems", 2022 Sept, Potsdam.

• The generation of cortical novelty responses through inhibitory plasticity. Talk at: Allen Institute Journal Club, 2022 May, online presentation.

• Implications of inhibitory plasticity as a homeostatic mechanism. Talk at: CRC 1080 autumn event, 2021 Nov, online presentation.

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Teaching experience

• Workshop Tutorial at Neuroscience and AI workshop at UChicago on "Modeling EI networks with multiple inhibitory populations (Jan 2025)

• Teaching Assistant at Cajal Summer School (Jul-Aug 2024)

• Teaching Assistant at Neuromatch Academy Computational Neuroscience (Jul 2021)

• Co-Instructor on lecture on "Networks of neurons and population activity for Neuroengineeering Master at TU Munich (Jan 2020)

• Co-Instructor on lecture on "Matlab and Statistics" at TU Munich (Sep 2020 & Sep 2021)
   

Supervision experience

• Co-supervision of two Ph.D. students at the University of Chicago (since Jun 2023)

• Co-supervision of Ph.D. student at MPI for Brain Research (2021-2023)

• Supervision of M.Sc. thesis of M. Maurycy Miękus at TU Munich (2022-2024)

• Supervision of a total of five M.Sc. students for short-term internships at the MPI for Brain Research and TU Munich (2019-203)
   

Workshop organization

• Co-organized COSYNE Workshop on"Shaping circuit functions via plastic and diverse inhibition", 2023 Mar, Mont-Tremblant.

• Co-organized FENS Workshop on “Mentoring during the Covid‑19 pandemic and beyond” as part of the FENS‑Kavli Network of Excellence, 2022 Jul, Paris.

 

Manuscript reviewer

Neuron (2x 2025), PNAS (2024), eLife (2024), Nature Communications (2023), COSYNE conference abstracts (2023, 2025), Scientific Illustrations (2023).

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Conference poster presentations

• Miehl C, Qi Y, Cohen A, Doiron B. State-dependent mapping from subthreshold to spiking activity in L1 inhibitory circuits. GRC on Inhibition in the CNS, 2025 Jul 5-11, Maine.

• Miehl C, Qi Y, Zhong J, Ji N, Cohen A, Doiron B. State-dependent mapping of correlations of subthreshold to spiking activity is expansive in L1 inhibitory circuits. COSYNE Conference, 2025 Mar 27 - April 2, Montreal.

• Miehl C, Doiron B. State-dependent dynamics and plasticity gating in inhibitory circuits. Poster presented at: SFN Conference, 2024 Sept 5-9, Chicago.

• Miehl C, Doiron B. State-dependent dynamics and plasticity gating in inhibitory circuits. Poster presented at: Sculpted Light in the Brain (SLB) Conference, 2024 June 19-21, Paris.

• Miehl C, Song S, Froemke R, Gjorgjieva J. Mechanisms of plasticity for pup call sounds in the maternal auditory cortex. Poster presented at: ANA/MITT meeting, 2023 Feb 1-3, Budapest.

• Miehl C, Song S, Froemke R, Gjorgjieva J. Mechanisms of plasticity for pup call sounds in the maternal auditory cortex. Poster presented at: Bernstein Conference, 2022 Sep 13-16, Berlin.

• Miehl C, Song S, Froemke R, Gjorgjieva J. Mechanisms of plasticity for pup call sounds in the maternal auditory cortex. Poster presented at: FENS Conference, 2022 Jul 9-13, Paris.

• Miehl C, Song S, Froemke R, Gjorgjieva J. Mechanisms of plasticity for pup call sounds in the maternal auditory cortex. Poster presented at: COSYNE Conference, 2022 Mar 17-20, Lisbon.

• Miehl C, Song S, Froemke R, Gjorgjieva J. Short- and long-term plasticity shape inter-stimulus interval-dependent responses in the auditory cortex. Poster presented at: Bernstein Conference, 2021 Sep 21 - 23, Online conference.

• Miehl C* , Schulz A*, Berry II M, Gjorgjieva J. The generation of cortical novelty responses through inhibitory plasticity. Poster presented at: COSYNE Conference, 2021 Feb 23 - 26, Online conference.

• Miehl C, Gjorgjieva J. Inhibitory plasticity as a control mechanism of excitatory weight dynamics. Poster presented at: Bernstein Conference, 2020 Sep 29 - Oct 1, Online conference.

• Miehl C, Gjorgjieva J. Non-linear inhibitory plasticity can homeostatically regulate excitatory weight dynamics. Poster presented at: COSYNE Conference, 2020 Feb 27 - Mar 1, Denver (CO).

• Miehl C, Gjorgjieva J. Functional implications of inhibitory plasticity as a homeostatic mechanism. Poster presented at: Bernstein Conference, 2019 Sep 17-20, Berlin.

• Miehl C, Field R, D'amour J, Tremblay R, Kruglikov I, Rudy B, Froemke R, Gjorgjieva J. Heterosynaptic plasticity determines the set-point for cortical excitatory-inhibitory balance. Poster presented at: COSYNE Conference, 2019 Feb 28 - Mar 3, Lisbon.

• Miehl C, Gjorgjieva J. Inhibitory plasticity as a possible metaplastic homeostatic mechanism. Poster presented at: Bernstein Conference, 2018 Sep 26-28, Berlin.

• Miehl C, Gjorgjieva J. Interaction of excitatory and inhibitory plasticity in a feedforward network model. Poster presented at: Third workshop on advanced methods in theoretical neuroscience, 2018 Jun 27-29, Göttingen.