About me

I am Dr. Dominic Gonschorek currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tübingen in the Eulerlab.

Research Interests

Broadly, I am fascinated by how the brain makes sense of the visual world, and I use the retina as a model system to get at this question, since it is small and accessible enough to study rigorously, yet already performs surprisingly sophisticated computations. A recurring theme in my work is that neural coding is not fixed: circuits continuously adapt to context, and part of my research looks at the neuromodulators (e.g., nitric oxide, endocannabinoids, histamine) that give the visual system this flexibility.

I also care a lot about the tools we use to study the brain. Modern neuroscience generates rich, high-dimensional data, and I develop computational and machine learning approaches, from deep learning models of neural responses to representation learning methods for neural time series, to help extract meaningful structure from this data and connect it back to biological principles.

Finally, I believe many of the field’s biggest questions require data and effort beyond what a single lab can produce, so I invest in building shared, large-scale datasets, open-source software, and connectomic resources that make research more reproducible and cumulative across labs.

Get in touch

I enjoy talking science and always welcome the chance to connect with fellow researchers, students, and anyone curious about vision and the brain. Whether you’re interested in a potential collaboration, have questions about my work, or are a student exploring a career in neuroscience, please don’t hesitate to reach out. I’d be glad to hear from you.