Ábel Ságodi
PhD Student in CATNIPLAB at Champalimaud Research, supervised by Memming Park.
Hi, I’m Ábel Ságodi. I am a PhD student at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon, working at the intersection of theoretical neuroscience, machine learning, and control theory. With a background in Mathematics, Physics, and Computational Science (MSc & BSc from the University of Amsterdam), I approach the brain as a complex dynamical system. I am fascinated by how biological circuits, despite being noisy and biological, can perform robust computation. I draw inspiration from the philosophy of science to develop an interpretable language for this computation, finding the right mathematical abstractions to understand how the brain actually works.
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| Mar 03, 2026 | Our abstract The intractability of difference-making without dynamical systems theory has been accepted for the 8th SURe Workshop! This is joint work with Leon de Bruin and Benjamin Drukarch. |
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| Feb 11, 2026 | New preprint out on Universal Approximation Theorems for Dynamical Systems! |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Arthur Liang’s abstract Symmetry-Regularized Learning of Continuous Attractor Dynamics has been accepted as a poster at COSYNE 2026! Congrats Arthur! |