Julijana Gjorgjieva

Julijana Gjorgjieva is a Macedonian-German professor of computational neuroscience at the Technical University of Munich and a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research. Her laboratory studies neural circuit formation.

Life Gjorgjieva was born in Kavadarci in North Macedonia, formerly known as Macedonia.

After completing high school, Gjorgjieva earned her undergraduate degree in mathematics at Harvey Mudd College and conducted research in mathematical biology, specifically analyzing the susceptible, infected recovered (SIR) models and vaccination strategies for SARS.

Awards Gjorgjieva has received numerous awards for her work in computational neuroscience. In 2021, Gjorgjieva was selected as a FENS-Kavli Scholar by the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence for her work in theoretical neuroscience In 2018, Gjorgjieva was awarded the Peter und Traudl Engelhorn Stiftung Research Prize in “Computational Biology." In 2017, Gjorgjieva was awarded the NARSAD Young Investigator Award from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. In 2021, Gjorgjieva was awarded the Eric Kandel Young Neuroscientists Prize.