People

Klaus Wimmer

Principal Investigator

Klaus is a Group Leader at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Barcelona. He received a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience from Technische Universität Berlin (supervised by Klaus Obermayer), and was a postdoc at IDIBAPS, Barcelona (Albert Compte, Jaime de la Rocha) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Gustavo Deco) before he moved to the CRM as a Ramón y Cajal Researcher in May 2017.

Tel. +34 935 86 85 15

email: kwimmer@crm.cat

Alexandra Antoniadou

Doctoral Student

Alexandra is an electrical and computer engineer from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and a systems neuroscience MSc graduate. During her BSc studies, she became interested in the mechanisms of the brain, leading her to the Brain and Mind master's program at the University of Crete. She carried out her master thesis in the Physiology of Cognitive functions laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Georgia Gregoriou, examining how attention affects neuronal processing in different brain areas. She then joined Panayiota Poirazi's laboratory, working on biophysical models of neural networks and started the PhD in the group in July 2024.

Lucía Arancibia

Doctoral Student

Lucía studied Biomedical Engineering at the UPM in Madrid, where she became interested in the interface between neuroscience and engineering. She then studied a Master of Science in Neurotechnology at Imperial College London and carried out her master’s thesis at Clopath’s Lab. In 2021 she joined the Perea lab at the Cajal Institute (CSIC) as a research assistant, where she worked on in vivo electrophysiology. Since 09/2022, she is a PhD student at the Computational Neuroscience Unit at the CRM working on spatiotemporal stimulus integration in perceptual decision making.

Pablo Crespo

Doctoral Student

Since March 2025, Pablo Crespo has been a Ph.D. student in the group. He holds a degree in Biomedical Engineering from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC) in Madrid and a master's degree in Biomedical Computing from the Technical University of Munich (TUM). For his bachelor's thesis, he worked on time estimation using Spiking Neural Networks under the supervision of Néstor Parga, and for his master's thesis, he studied various plasticity algorithms in computational models in Julijana Gjorgjieva's group. In his Ph.D., he aims to advance modeling techniques for cognitive processes such as decision-making and working memory

Katerina Kalou

Postdoctoral Researcher

Katerina is a Bioengineering and Biorobotics doctoral graduate from the University of Genova, Italy, with a Msc degree in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Trento and a Diploma degree in Psychology from the University of Athens, Greece. She has previously worked as a junior postdoc in the lab of Prof.Redmond O’Connell in the areas of visual perception and decision making using EEG/ fMRI and psychophysics.

Katarina will join the lab in Sept. 2023.

Citlalli Vivar

Doctoral Student

Citlalli graduated with an M.Sc in Brain and Cognition from Pompeu Fabra University and a B.A and M.A in Economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. She joined our lab in January 2020 with a predoctoral contract from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.

Anna Wilson Ganzabal

Research Assistant

Anna is an Applied Neuroscience master’s student from King’s College London and a graduate from the University of Nottingham with a BSc in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. In November 2022, she joined our lab to study the age-related changes in working memory in rhesus monkeys.