CV

Education

PhD (Physics of Biological and Complex Systems / IMPRS-PBCS), Göttingen (Sept 2020 – Aug 2024) — summa cum laude; thesis: Inferring spreading dynamics of diseases and in neural networks
SmartStart Program (Computational Neuroscience), Göttingen (Sept 2019 – Aug 2020)
M.Sc. Physics, Georg-August University Göttingen (Apr 2017 – Aug 2019) — thesis: Linking the function of cortical networks to temporal dynamics
B.Sc. Physics, Georg-August University Göttingen (Sept 2013 – Apr 2017) — thesis: Relation between function and dynamical state of different brain areas in macaques
Swiss Maturity exam (equiv. A-level), École Moser, Geneva (Sept 2012)

Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (Priesemann Group) (since Nov 2024)
Research Associate (SmartStart), Forschungszentrum Jülich (Sept 2019 – Aug 2020)
Student / Research Assistant, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (Priesemann Group) (Apr 2017 – Aug 2019)
Research Internship (DAAD RISE), IIT Mandi, India (Aug – Oct 2014)

Dehning, J., Zierenberg, J., Spitzner, F. P., …, Priesemann, V. “Inferring Change Points in the Spread of COVID-19 Reveals the Effectiveness of Interventions”. Science (2020). doi: 10.1126/science.abb9789
Contreras, S., Dehning, J., Loidolt, M., …, Priesemann, V. “The Challenges of Containing SARS-CoV-2 via Test-Trace-and-Isolate”. Nature Communications (2021). doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-20699-8
Kekić, A., Dehning, J., …, Schölkopf, B. “Evaluating vaccine allocation strategies using simulation-assisted causal modeling”. Patterns (2023). doi: 10.1016/j.patter.2023.100739
Dehning, J., Mohr, S. B., Contreras, S., …, Priesemann, V. “Impact of the Euro 2020 championship on the spread of COVID-19”. Nature Communications (2023). doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-35512-x
Lewen, D., Ivanov, V., Dehning, J., …, Kagan, I. “Continuous dynamics of cooperation and competition in social decision-making”. Communications Psychology (2025). doi: 10.1038/s44271-025-00348-w