Peter C. Petersen

Principal Investigator and Assistant Professor

I am a systems neuroscientist and electrophysiologist studying the brain’s neuronal network dynamics. I am leading our research focused on spatial memory and the involved mechanisms like theta oscillations in behaving rats, and the development of related tools.

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Pedro Cordeiro

PhD student
Pedro is part of the Neuroscience Academy Denmark PhD program.

Julia Czurylo

Co-supervised PhD student (Primary supervisor: Mikael Palner)

Julia studied Biomedical Sciences in the Netherlands at Maastricht University. She conducted her master’s thesis project at Southern Denmark University in the Palner Lab, where she worked on a chemogenetic animal model of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. She is part of the Neuroscience Academy Denmark PhD program. Her research interests include, psychiatric disorders, brain oscillations and neuromodulation.

Mingze Dou

Master’s Student

Anastasia Tsopanidou

Co-supervised PhD student (Primary supervisor: Celia Kjærby)

Shuhan Yang

Research Assistant

Anne Marie Nordvig Petersen

Laboratory Technician

Anne Marie is a part-time Laboratory Technician taking care of all the practical things in the lab such as ordering, handling of invoices and chemical registration. Besides working for the Petersen Lab, I also work for Perrier Lab and Walter Lab.

Viktor Wisniewski Bendtsen

NAD PhD rotation student

Viktor is a NAD PhD fellow currently undertaking his third rotation in the Petersen lab. He holds a master’s degree in nanoscience with a specialization in biophysics from Aarhus University. His research interests include cognition, systems neuroscience, and data-driven computational modeling.