Maria Pope
Currently looking for a postdoc beginning after May 2025!!
I am a dual PhD Student in Neuroscience and Complex Networks and Systems in the NRT Program at Indiana University. Broadly, I am interested in how the structure of complex systems (like the brain) constrains their dynamics, and how we might characterize a system’s dynamics in terms of its information content, with a particular focus on higher-order, synergistic interactions. I have been researching some of these questions for the last four years in the lab of Olaf Sporns.
Feel free to take a look at the Publications tab if you’re interested in what we’ve been working on, or drop me an email!
Recent News
- July 2024: I am giving an invited talk on applications of multivariate information theory to fMRI data at the SIAM Discrete Math conference in Spokane, Washington.
- July 2024: “The serotonergic psychedelic N, N-dipropyltryptamine alters information-processing dynamics in cortical neural circuits” was accepted for publication at Network Neuroscience!
- June 2024: I presented my work, “Time-varying synergy/redundancy dominance of the human cerebral cortex” as a poster at the Network Neuroscience Satellite and a talk at the main conference of NetSci 2024.
- June 2024: New preprint applying the local O to fMRI data is posted!! “Time-varying synergy/redundancy dominance of the human cerebral cortex”]
- March 2024: I met with a classroom of high schoolers to chat about neuroscience through the Skype-a-Scientist program.
- September 2023: I visited Purdue University and presented the poster “Co-evolving dynamics and topology in a coupled oscillator model of resting brain function” at the meeting of the Greater Indiana Society for Neuroscience.
- July 2023: I won the Entropy Best ECR Presentation award for my presentation “Multivariate information theory reveals synergistic subsystems of the human cerebral cortex” at the Information Theory Workshop of CNS*2023.
- July 2023: I presented a poster “Co-evolving dynamics and topology in a coupled oscillator model of resting brain function” with the work from my most recent paper at NetSci.