Arne Ivo Gottwald

Research Area B: Why are we curious? 

Bachelor Thesis: "d-dimensionales Ising Spin Modell und stochastische Methoden", Master Thesis: "Simulation und statistische Analyse von Pandemie-Ausbreitungsmodellen"


Information integration in internal models of the world

The thesis follows the question "Where is the model?" instead of focussing on prediction errors. It is also meant to combine methods from systems neuroscience for source analysis to be made available in MNE-Python. To this extent it can be considered as a foundation towards upcoming paradigms which will enable participants interaction with the world. That way brain activity during curios sampling strategies can be recorded non-invasively and analysed at the source locations.


I can digest very well anything from the fields of high performance computing ranging programming languages and resource optimization to more administrative system implementation and organisation. Naturally, my curiosity runs high whenever I am stumbling upon something new there. With bicycles I share a similar motivation. Although the earlier attempts to explore the creation of a bicycle chopper martured in time, it still is refreshing to think about recombining bicycle components and create a new useful machine. Ideally which offers some niche characteristics towards the pre-existing collection.



  • 2013-2022 - Student, Fachgruppe Physik und Astronomie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany
  • 2023-2024 - Research assistant, Max-Planck Insitut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation, Göttingen