Education
PhD Computational Neuroscience (2019 - present)
- University of Cambridge
- Supervisor: Dr Guillaume Hennequin
- Development of Bayesian latent variable models for neural population recodings (Jensen et al. 2020, Jensen & Kao et al. 2021).
- Analysis and modeling of neural dynamics for navigation and motor control.
- Continual learning in biological motor circuits and for AI (Jensen et al. 2021, Kao & Jensen et al. 2021).
- Reinforcement learning and planning in biological and artificial agents.
MPhil Computational Biology (2018 - 2019)
- University of Cambridge & Harvard Center for Brain Science
- Result: Distinction (89.1/100; 1st of 19 students)
- Dissertation: Long-Term Stability of Neural Dynamics Underlying Stereotyped Behavior
- Supervisor: Professor Bence Ölveczky
BA Natural Sciences
- University of Cambridge
- Result: First Class Honors (82.7/100; 1st of 112 students)
- Specialization: Molecular Biology & Theoretical Chemistry
Research
Harvard Center for Brain Science (2018 - )
- Supervisor: Professor Bence Ölveczky
- Analysis of the neural stability of motor memories from extracellular recordings.
- Training of GLMs and recurrent network models of representational stability and drift.
- Jensen et al. (2021)
Janelia Research Campus (2018 - 2019)
- Supervisor: Professor Vivek Jayaraman
- Analysis of electron miscroscopy \& RNAseq data from the fly head direction circuit.\
- Development of experimentally inspired biophysical and recurrent network models.
- Turner-Evans et al. (2020)
Cambridge Centre for Computational Chemistry (2017 - 2018)
- Supervisor: Dr Alex Thom
- Development of a Hartree Fock-based method for modeling electron transfer reactions. \
- Characterization of the electronic states in a computational model of a solar cell.
- Jensen et al. (2018)
Aarhus University Department of Biomedicine (2016 - 2017)
- Supervisor: Dr Yonglun Luo
- Investigation of factors affecting the efficiency of CRISPR/Cas9 for genome editing. \
- Design of new CRISPR-based tools for improved genomic and epigenomic control.
- Jensen et al. (2017)
Teaching
Neuromatch Academy
- Teaching Assistant - Computational neuroscience (2021)
University of Cambridge
- Supervisor (Teaching Assistant) - Mathematical electrophysiology, 3rd year (2021)
- Supervisor (Teaching Assistant) - Theoretical chemistry, 3rd year (2018-2020)
Awards
Fellowships & scholarships
- Cambridge Gates Scholar (2019 - present)
- Scholar of Magdalene College, Cambridge (2016 - 2019)
- Janelia Undergraduate Scholar (2018)
- British Chamber of Commerce in Denmark Scholar (2015)
Prizes
- Georgina Winnifred Holgate Pollard Memorial Prize for best performance in undergraduate chemistry (2018)
- Gill, Bundy & B.C. Saunders prizes for excellence in university examinations (2018)
- BP Prize for the best performance in practical chemistry (2018)
- BP Prize for the best performance in theoretical chemistry (2017)
- First place - The Danish National Science Fair (life science) (2015)
- Silver medal - The International Chemistry Olympiad (2014 & 2015)
Computational skills
- Python (inlcuding PyTorch, Jax & TensorFlow), Julia (including Zygote & Flux), R, MATLAB