A link to my full CV
since Apr. 2020
M.Sc. Physics, Heidelberg , Germany
Scholarship: German Academic Scholarship Foundation
Current average: 1.0*
M.A. Philosophy, Heidelberg , Germany
Current average: 1.2
Oct 2016 - Feb 2020
B.Sc. Physics, Heidelberg , Germany
Bachelor’s thesis: 1.0
Final average: 1.2
2008 - 2016
Secondary Education - Abitur at Gymnasium an der Gartenstraße, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Valedictorian
Abitur Award of the German Physical Society (DPG)
Final average: 1.0
2013 - 2016
*All grades above are on a scale from 1 to 5 (with 1.0 being the best possible grade).
Scholarship holder
Merit-based and awarded to fewer than 0.5% of German students with the goal to support young people that can be expected to make an outstanding contribution to society as a whole.
Brenner,M.*,Bereska,L.*,Mikhaeil,J.,Hess,F.,Monfared,Z.,Kuo,P.&Durstewitz,D.(2021).Tractable Dendritic RNNs for Identifying Unknown Nonlinear Dynamical Systems. submitted to ICLR
Monfared, Z.*, Mikhaeil, J.* & Durstewitz, D. (2021). How to train RNNs on chaotic data. arXiv: 2110.07238 [cs.LG]
Poster Presentation at Bernstein Conference, online
Since Mar 2021
Master’s thesis at DurstewitzLab
Research on the connection between an RNNs long-term behaviour and its loss gradients in training, and consequent development of an RNN training algortithm designed for chaotic data
Oct 2019 - Mar 2021
Research assistant in the Dept. of Theoretical Neuroscience (DurstewitzLab), CIMH, Mannheim
Research on invariant properties of dynamical systems with the goal of developing new evaluation measures for dynamical systems reconstruction and to improve the training of sequential variational autoencoder
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
Bachelor’s thesis at DESY, Hamburg, Germany
Topological Shower Reconstruction in a Highly Granular Calorimeter with Optical Readout
Oct 2018
Reseach assistant at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Monitoring of CALICE Analog Hadron Calorimeter for data taking at CERN’s Testbeam
Jul 2018 - Sep 2018
Intern at DESY’s Summer Student Program, Hamburg, Germany
Time Resolution Studies of CALICE’s Analog Hadron Calorimeter at DESY’s Future Lepton Col- lider group
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
Research assistant at the ATLAS Group, Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Germany
Embedded Software Development for Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC intended for the ATLAS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger Upgrade