Work Experience

• Jul 2024- present
  POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER, PERCEPTION AND PLASTICITY GROUP, GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER AND EUROPEAN NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE, GÖTTINGEN; AND RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM, GERMANY
  Supervisor: Dr. Caspar Schwiedrzik
• Aug 2024- Jan 2025
  VISITING SCIENTIST, NEURAL SYSTEMS LABORATORY, THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, USA
  Supervisor: Dr. Winrich Freiwald
• Jul 2022- Sep 2022
  VISITING SCIENTIST, NEURAL SYSTEMS LABORATORY, THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, USA
  Supervisor: Dr. Winrich Freiwald
• Aug 2019- Jun 2024
  DOCTORAL RESEARCHER, PERCEPTION AND PLASTICITY GROUP, GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER AND EUROPEAN NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE, GÖTTINGEN, GERMANY
  Supervisor: Dr. Caspar Schwiedrzik

Education

• 2019- 2024
  PH.D. IN NEUROSCIENCE, INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL FOR NEUROSCIENCES, GEORG-AUGUST UNIVERSITY, GÖTTINGEN
  Thesis: Flexibility and optimization of neural codes in primate sensory cortex; Perception and Plasticity Group, German Primate Center and European Neuroscience Institute; Advisor: Dr. Caspar Schwiedrzik
• 2017-2019
  M.SC. IN NEUROSCIENCE, INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL FOR NEUROSCIENCES, GEORG-AUGUST UNIVERSITY, GÖTTINGEN
  Thesis: Dyadic interactions in social-decision making in NHP & humans; Decision and Awareness Group, German Primate Center, Göttingen; Advisors: Drs. Sebastian Moeller, Igor Kagan, Alexander Gail
• 2013-2017
  B.TECH. (ENGINEERING) IN BIOTECHNOLOGY, VIT UNIVERSITY, VELLORE, INDIA
  Thesis: Adult Neurogenesis: Molecular regulation & implications on spatial memory; Brain homeostasis & neuroinflammation lab, National Center for Biological Research, India; Advisor: Dr. Hiyaa Ghosh

Further Training

• Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience Summer School, Cold Spring Harbor Asia, Suzhou, China (Jul 2019)
  Organized by Xiao-Jing Wang, Dora Angelaki, Chris Honey and Robert Yang
• Cellular, Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Summer Program , Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton, USA (Jun 2019)
  Organized by Michael J. Berry and Alan Gelperin

Publications

Google Scholar Page

• Nigam, T., Schwiedrzik, C.M. (2024). Predictions enable top-down pattern separation in the macaque face-processing hierarchy. Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51543-y .
• Nigam, T.. , Campos, A., Megevand, P., Mehta, A.D., Vidal, J., Perrone-Bertolotti, M., Kahane, P., Lachaux, J.P.,Thesen, T., Doyle, W., Devinsky O., Melloni, L., Schwiedrzik, C.M. (2024), Multiple task-demands flexibly optimize neural geometry in human inferotemporal cortex, Manuscript in preparation.
• Caruso, N., Zimmermann A., Nigam T., Becker C., Lipson K., Helmbacher F. (2022), An intragenic FAT1 regulatory element deleted in muscular dystrophy patients drives muscle and mesenchyme expression during development https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.14.507898 .
• Lehr, A., Henneberg, N., Nigam, T. , Paulus, W., & Antal, A. (2019). Modulation of Conflict Processing by ThetaRange tACS over the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex. Neural plasticity. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/6747049

Published as peer-reviewed conference proceedings

• Nigam, T., Schwiedrzik, C.M. , Predictions enable top-down separability in the macaque face-processing hierarchy,Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) 2024, Portugal
• Nigam, T., Schwiedrzik, C.M. , High-level prediction signals cascade through the macaque face-processing hierarchy,Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) 2022, Portugal

Talks

• April 2025: Neurospin, Paris, France (Dr. Stanislas Dehaene)
• April 2025: Baylor College for Medicine, Houston, USA, (Dr. Benjamin Hayden)
• April 2025: Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience/Institut de la Vision, Paris, France (Dr. Pieter Roelfsema)
• April 2025: Primate Neurobiology Meeting 2025, Goettingen, Germany
• April 2025: Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) 2025 Workshop, Montreal, Canada (Dr. Katrin Franke and Dr. Maria Diamantaki)
• Nov 2024: Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, USA (Dr. Timothy Buschman)
• Oct 2024: Stanford University, USA (Dr. Andreas Tolias)
• Sep 2024: The 10th Mismatch Negativity Conference, Salamanca, Spain (couldn’t attend)
• Mar 2024: Neuroscience Institute, University of Chicago, USA (Dr. Marlene Cohen, Dr. David Freedman)
• Dec 2023: Center for Neuroscience, Indian Institute for Sciences, Bengaluru, India (Dr. S.P. Arun)
• Aug 2022: The Rockefeller University, New York, USA (Dr. Winrich Freiwald)
• Aug 2022: Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, USA (Dr. Timothy Buschman)
• Aug 2022: Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, (Dr. Mehrdad Jazayeri)
• Aug 2022: Neuroscience Institute, NYU Langone Health, New York University, USA (Dr. Jayeeta Basu)
• Mar 2020: Intracranial Electrophysiology Symposium, University Medical Center Goettingen, Germany

Grants & Fellowships

• Short-term International Mentoring Program from German Research Foundation (SFB1528) for mentoring from Dr. Winrich Freiwald and research stay at The Rockefeller University, New York, USA (2024) - 10,000€
• Outgoing Fellows Grant from The Leibniz ScienceCampus for research stay at The Rockefeller University, New York, USA(2024 & 2022) - 8,000€
• Dorothea Schlözer Mentoring Program (2022) - 1 year program
• Grant for organizing scientific conference awarded by Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation for supporting junior scientists, speakers at the Neurizons 2022 conference to promote inclusivity and diversity in academia. (2022) -5700 €
• Full financial support from Cold Spring Harbor Asia for Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience Summer School, Suzhou, China (2022) (1 month)
• Full financial support from the National Institute of Mental Health (USA) and Wellcome Burroughs Funds for Cellular, Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Summer Program Princeton Neuroscience Institute, USA (2022) (1 month)
• Scholarship from International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS), Germany, for Masters in Neuroscience (2017-2019) -15000 €
• Scholarship from French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France for summer research internships -(2015,2016)-5 months

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