About Me

Welcome to my page!

I’m a cognitive neuroscience researcher currently doing my PhD at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour, and Development in sunny Sydney, Australia. My work focuses on how the brain makes sense of the visual world; specifically, how we recognize and process objects. I use neuroimaging, computational models like deep neural networks, and behavioral experiments.

I’m fascinated by the overlap between human perception and artificial intelligence, especially how insights from neuroscience can help improve machine learning models, and how AI can help us understand the brain in new and exciting ways.

Beyond research, I’m a big football fan (Bayern Munich), spend some time in the gym, and I am trying my best to make it to the World Surf League (I can barely stand up).

This site is where I share my publications/teaching and the occasional update.
If you’re curious about my work, feel free to reach out!

Send me an email: F.Burger@westernsydney.edu.au

Supervisors

• Tijl Grootswagers — Western Sydney University
• Genevieve Quek — Western Sydney University
• Manuel Varlet — Western Sydney University

Collaborators (Australia)

• Mac Shine — University of Sydney
• Eli Müller — University of Sydney
• Brandon Munn — University of Sydney
• Giulia Baracchini — University of Sydney

Collaborators (International)

• Andres Canales-Johnson — University of Cambridge
• Radoslaw Martin Cichy — Freie Universität Berlin
• Martin Hebart — Justus Liebig University Giessen / Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences