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New brain on the team

Hi,
My name is Casper. Besides the usual astrophysics conundrums I’m also interested in how the brain works. Neuroscience is a bit like astrophysics in that we are pretty good in imaging stuff but still limited in our understanding. To illustrate this, here is a picture of my own brain made with a technique called Magnetic Resonance Imaging:

brain

Even though we don’t completely understand how the brain works, my own brain will (hopefully!) come in handy during my Master project with Sera. I’m analyzing the relativistic jet generated by an accretion disk that is tilted with respect to black hole to which it belongs. We’re using state-of the-art techniques to simulate that kind of system. I’ll give an update here now and then.

Cheers!
Casper

Casper Hesp

I'm a Master student of Astrophysics and Neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam. Before starting this double programme, I obtained two BSc's at the University of Groningen: Psychology and Astronomy. My research interests are focused on computational approaches for furthering theoretical understanding within both of these fields. I've worked on simulating a diversity of systems such as galaxies, parent-child play in autism, and neural agents in an evolutionary setting. Now I'm studying relativistic jets that are produced by tilted accretion disks of black holes.

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