Education

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

• 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

 

Grants/Scholarships awarded

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

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

• Top-Stipendium from the government of Lower Austria (2018)

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

 

Talks

• 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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Workshop organization

• Organized COSYNE Workshop on"Shaping circuit functions via plastic and diverse inhibition" together with Samuel Eckmann and Yue Kris Wu, 2023 Mar, Mont-Tremblant.

 

Poster presentations

• 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.