10/2016 - 01/2019
PhD in Computational Systems Neuroscience
Computational Systems Neuroscience, University of Cologne
Thesis: Circuit motifs for sensory integration, learning, and the initiation of adaptive behavior in Drosophila, with distinction (0.7)
Advisor: Martin Nawrot, Examiners: Martin Nawrot, Kei Ito
10/2016 - 01/2019
M. Sc. Neuroscience
University of Cologne
Thesis: Learning induced plasticity in a spiking network model inspired by the Drosophila olfactory system
09/2012 - 07/2016
Bc. Sc. Psychology
University of Mannheim
Thesis: The contribution of automatic and controlled cognitive processes in forming memory of valent stimuli and their context
06/2025 - present
Research Associate
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience (Marta Zlatic & Albert Cardona), University of Cambridge
04/2025 - present
Research Associate
Computational Neuroscience Laboratory (Claudia Clopath), Bioengineering, Imperial College London
11/2023 - 02/2025
Postdoctoral Researcher
Computational Systems Neuroscience (Martin Nawrot), Zoology, University of Cologne
09/2019 - 11/2023
Doctoral Student
Computational Systems Neuroscience (Martin Nawrot), Zoology, University of Cologne
10/2017 - 11/2017
Research Internship
Computational Systems Neuroscience (Martin Nawrot), Zoology, University of Cologne
07/2016 - 10/2016
Research Assistant
Systems Neuroscience (Christian Büchel), University Hospital Hamburg (UKE)
02/2016 - 07/2016
Research Internship
Clinical Psychology (Tania Lincoln), University of Hamburg
08/2015 - 12/2015
Research Internship
Cognitive Sciences (Sverker Sikström), Lund University
03/2013 - 07/2015
Research Assistant
Cognitive Psychology and Statistics (Thorsten Meiser), University of Mannheim
2025
Panagiotis Sakagiannis, Anna-Maria Jürgensen, and Martin P. Nawrot
A behavioral architecture for realistic simulations of drosophila larva locomotion and foraging
eLife, page 14:RP104262
2025
El Yazid Rachad, Stephan Hubertus Deimel, Lisa Epple, Yogesh Vasant Gadgil, Anna-Maria Jürgensen, Magdalena Springer, Chen-Han Lin, Martin Paul Nawrot, Suewei Lin, and André Fiala
Functional dissection of a neuronal brain circuit mediating higher-order associative learning
Cell Reports, volume 44, page 115593
2024
Anna-Maria Jürgensen, Felix Johannes Schmitt, and Martin P. Nawrot
Minimal circuit motifs for second-order conditioning in the insect mushroom body
Frontiers in Physiology, volume 14, page 1326307
2024
Anna-Maria Jürgensen, Panagiotis Sakagiannis, Michael Schleyer, Bertram Gerber, and Martin P. Nawrot
Prediction error drives associative olfactory learning and conditioned behavior in a spiking model of drosophila larva
iScience, volume 27, page 108640
2021
Anna-Maria Jürgensen, Afshin Khalili, Elisabetta Chicca, Giacomo Indiveri, and Martin P. Nawrot
A neuromorphic model of olfactory processing and sparse coding in the drosophila larva brain
Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering, volume 1, page 024008
2016
Sverker Sikström, Anna-Maria Jürgensen, Maryam Haghighi, Daniel Månsson, David Smidelik, and Thomas Habekost
Self-rated attentiveness interacts with transcranial direct current stimulation and noise stimulation in reaction time in a go/no-go task
Neural plasticity, volume 2016
NWG 2025
Anna-Maria Jürgensen, Denise Weber, Thum Andreas, and Martin P. Nawrot
Distributed reinforcement signals among drosophila larva dopaminergic neurons guide learning in individual mushroom body compartments
FENS 2024
Anna-Maria Jürgensen, Panagiotis Sakagiannis, Felix J. Schmitt, Michael Schleyer, Bertram Gerber, and Martin P. Nawrot
Circuit motifs for learning with reinforcement prediction in the drosophila mushroom body
BonnBrain 2024
Anna-Maria Jürgensen, Panagiotis Sakagiannis, Felix J. Schmitt, Michael Schleyer, Bertram Gerber, and Martin P. Nawrot
Circuit motifs for sensory integration, learning, and the initiation of adaptive behavior in larval drosophila
Champalimaud Neuroscience Symposium 2023
Anna-Maria Jürgensen, Felix J. Schmitt, and Martin P. Nawrot
Minimal circuit motifs for second order conditioning in the insect mushroom body
Bernstein Conference 2022
Anna-Maria Jürgensen, Panagiotis Sakagiannis, Michael Schleyer, Bertram Gerber, and Martin P. Nawrot
Prediction error drives associative olfactory learning and conditioned behavior in a spiking model of drosophila larva
Areadne Conference 2022
Anna-Maria Jürgensen, Panagiotis Sakagiannis, Michael Schleyer, Bertram Gerber, and Martin P. Nawrot
Modeling continous learning and adaptive behavior in drosophila larva
NWG 2019
Anna-Maria Jürgensen, Michael Schleyer, Bertram Gerber, and Martin P. Nawrot
Olfactory learning in drosophila larva can be accounted for by plasticity of the synapses between Kenyon cells and mushroom body output neurons
CNS 2019
Anna-Maria Jürgensen, Afshin Khalili, and Martin P. Nawrot
Reinforcement-mediated plasticity in a spiking model of the drosophila larva olfactory system
Bernstein Conference 2019
Anna-Maria Jürgensen, Michael Schleyer, Bertram Gerber, and Martin P. Nawrot
Reinforcement-mediated plasticity in a spiking model of the drosophila larva olfactory system
Symposium Neurowissenschaften Köln 2018
Anna-Maria Jürgensen, Hannes Rapp, Rinaldo Betkiewicz, and Martin P. Nawrot
From dense to sparse coding in a spiking model of the drosophila larva olfactory system
Bernstein Conference 2018
Anna-Maria Jürgensen, Hannes Rapp, Rinaldo Betkiewicz, and Martin P. Nawrot
From dense to sparse coding in a spiking model of the drosophila larva olfactory system
2023
Using circuit models to explore prediction error in insect learning
Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation
2022
A spiking model of drosophila larva olfactory learning
Arthropod Neuroscience Network, University of Cologne
2025 - 2027
Postdoctoral Fellowship - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, European Union
2025
Postdoctoral Fellowship - Walter Benjamin, DFG (declined)
2025
Postdoctoral Fellowship - Newton international fellowship, Royal Society (shortlisted)
2019 - 2023
RTG associated, Graduate school Neural circuit analysis on the cellular and subcellular level, University of Cologne
2022
Cornelia Harte Mentoring PRO, University of Cologne
2015
Erasmus+, European Union