Wilhelm Braun

Theoretical Neuroscience

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About

Hello and welcome! I am a researcher based at Kiel University (CAU), Germany, where I am part of the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering. I currently work on early nervous systems in several model species (cnidarians, cubozoans) and functional biologically plausible network dynamics. I also have a background in applied mathematics, particularly in the numerical solution of SDEs and PDEs applied to neuronal modeling.

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Selected Publications

2025

Comparison of derivative-based and correlation-based methods to estimate effective connectivity in neural networks

Niklas Laasch, Wilhelm Braun, Lisa Knoff, Jan Bielecki, Claus C. Hilgetag, Published in Scientific Reports.

2024

A functional network model for body column neural connectivity in Hydra

Wilhelm Braun, Sebastian Jenderny, Christoph Giez, Dijana Pavleska, Alexander Klimovich, Thomas C. G. Bosch, Karlheinz Ochs, Philipp Hövel, Claus C. Hilgetag. bioRxiv preprint.

2022

One region to control them all - the surprising effectiveness of network control theory in predicting post-stroke recovery from aphasia

Mariia Popova, Kayson Fakhar, Wilhelm Braun. Published in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience.

2022

High-frequency oscillations and sequence generation in two-population models of hippocampal region CA1

with Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer, Published in PLOS Computational Biology.

2021

Non-additive activity modulation during a decision making task involving tactic selection

with Yoshiya Matsuzaka, Hajime Mushiake, Georg Northoff & André Longtin. Published in Cognitive Neurodynamics.

2019

From single neurons to behavior in the jellyfish Aurelia aurita

Fabian Pallasdies, Sven Goedeke, Wilhelm Braun, Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer. Published in eLife.

2019

Interspike interval correlations in networks of inhibitory integrate-and-fire neurons

with André Longtin. Published in Physical Review E.

2017

Evolution of moments and correlations in nonrenewal escape-time processes

with Rüdiger Thul and André Longtin. Published in Physical Review E.

2017

Sign changes as a universal concept in first-passage-time calculations

with Rüdiger Thul. Published in Physical Review E.

2015

First-passage times in integrate-and-fire neurons with stochastic thresholds

with Rüdiger Thul and Paul C. Matthews. Published in Physical Review E.

CV

Present and past positions

Junior Group Leader

Kiel University (CAU Kiel), Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering | since 2025

  • Affiliated with the Nanoelectronics group of Prof. Dr. Hermann Kohlstedt

Research Assistant (Postdoctoral Researcher)

Institute of Computational Neuroscience (ICNS), UKE Hamburg | 2021 — 2025

  • Mentor: Prof. Dr. Claus C. Hilgetag
  • I'm a guest research associate at ICNS since 2025.

Research Assistant (Postdoctoral Researcher)

Institute of Genetics, University of Bonn | 2017 — 2021

  • Mentor: Prof. Dr. Raoul-Martin-Memmesheimer

Research Assistant (Postdoctoral Researcher)

Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Neurodynamics Group | 2016 — 2017

  • Mentors: Prof. André Longtin and Prof. Georg Northoff

Education

PhD in Mathematics

University of Nottingham | 2015

Supervisors: Dr. Rüdiger Thul and Dr. P.C. Matthews

Master of Advanced Study (Part III of the Mathematical Tripos)

University of Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College | 2012

B.Sc. (Physics)

University of Potsdam | 2011