Dr. Carla Filosa

Dr. Carla Filosa
Dr. Carla Filosa
Funktionen Scientist funded by the MZPG CONNECT Early Career Program

Prediction of stress resilience from complex social interactions

This project aims to understand the influence of reward sensitivity and social hierarchy on the individual stress response. The complex data of individual hierarchy and reward evaluation will be used to generate a prediction for complex social behavior. These predictions will be achieved by developing reinforcement learning models in combination with AI augmented analyses of social interaction.

Dr. Carla Filosa is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in the research group for Systemic Neuroscience and Mental Health under the direction of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kelsch. Even as a physics student, she was fascinated by understanding the most fascinating system in the world: the brain. During her PhD thesis she used detection methods for neuronal ensembles and modeling to investigate the neuronal plasticity that generates the reward prediction error in mesolimbic networks.

Her current research aims at a new analytical framework to understand the neuronal mechanisms that generate stress resilience from the interaction of complex behavioral domains.