Resume

Professional Experience

• Doctoral Research Fellow, Computational Neuroscience, University of Oslo, 2020 - 2023, Oslo, Norway.
• Research Scientist, Computational Drug Design, GTN ltd., 2019 - 2020, London, United Kingdom.
• Research Assistant, Quantum Many-Body Physics, Ghent University, 2017 - 2019, Ghent, Belgium.
• Research Intern, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge University, Summer 2016, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Academic Degrees

• Ph.D in Computational Neuroscience, University of Oslo, 2023, Oslo, Norway.
• M.Sc. in Physics and Astronomy, Summa Cum Laude, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2017, Brussels, Belgium.
• B.Sc. in Physics and Astronomy, Magna Cum Laude, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2015, Brussels, Belgium.

Talks and Presentations

• "Distilling Computational Neuroscience", Oral Presentation at the Nordic AI Meet (NORA, CLAIRE), November 2022, Oslo, Norway
• "Schizophrenia as a Disease of Expression", Invited Talk at the Digibrain Closing Symposium (Centre for Digital Life Norway), May 2022, Oslo, Norway
• "Technical Tutorial on AlphaFold v2.0 and RoseTTAFold", Invited Talk at the NORA AlphaFold v2.0 and RoseTTAFold Workshop, September 2021, Oslo (online), Norway. In collaboration with the University of Oslo, dScience, Elixir Norway, Oslo Cancer Cluster, and the Centre for Digital Life Norway.
• "Omics Data in Simulations of Schizophrenia", Invited Talk at the Joined Simula-UCSD Summer School in Computational Physiology (The University of California, San Diego, the University of Oslo, and Simula Research Laboratory), June 2021, Oslo & San Diego (online), Norway & USA.
• "Continuous Tensor Networks and The Quantum Gross-Pitaevskii Equation", Student Lecture at the Summer School on Integrability in Atomic and Condensed Matter Physics, L'Ecole de Physique des Houches, August 2018, Les Houches, France.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Verhellen, Jonas, "Graph-Based Molecular Pareto Optimisation", Chemical Science, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 13.25, 2022: 7526-7535.
• Verhellen, Jonas, and Jeriek Van den Abeele, "Illuminating Elite Patches of Chemical Space", Chemical Science, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 11.42, 2020: 11485-11491.

Doctoral Schools

• 5th Annual Conference of the Digital Life Norway Research School, Digital Life Norway, September 2021, Tromsø, Norway
• Mathematical Methods in Computational Neuroscience, August 2021, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience & NRSN, Eresfjord, Norway.
• European Tensor Network School, Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems, November 2018, Dresden, Germany.
• Summer School on Collective Behaviour in Quantum Matter, The Abdus Salam ICTP, September 2018, Trieste, Italy.
• Summer School on Integrability in Atomic and Condensed Matter Physics, L'Ecole de Physique des Houches, August 2018, Les Houches, France.
• European Tensor Network School, Quantum Research Group, Ghent University, November 2017, Ghent, Belgium.
• Summer School in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics, XIII Modave Summer School, September 2017, Modave, Belgium.
• IPP Summer University for Plasma Physics and Fusion Research, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics , September 2016, Greifswald, Germany.

Academic Conferences

• Nordic AI Meet / Nordic Young Researchers Symposium, NORA and CLAIRE, November 2022, Oslo, Norway.
• Bernstein Conferences (including satellite and student workshops), Bernstein Network, September 2022, Berlin, Germany.
• Federation of European Neuroscience Societies Forum, Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, July 2022, Paris, France.
• AlphaFold v2.0 and RoseTTAFold Workshop, NORA, University of Oslo, dScience, Elixir Norway, Oslo Cancer Cluster and the Centre for Digital Life Norway, September 2021, Oslo (online), Norway.
• Workshop on Free Energy Methods in Drug Design, Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research, June 2021, Cambridge (online), USA.
• Les Houches-TSRC Protein Dynamics Workshop, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, May 2021, Les Houches (online), France.
• Ion Channel Symposium: Novel Members, Structures and Function, University of Copenhagen, May 2021, Copenhagen (online), Denmark.
• Workshop on Computer Simulation and Theory of Macromolecules, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry / Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, April 2021, Hünfeld (online), Germany.
• EPFL Neuro Symposium Surprise, Curiosity and Reward: from Neuroscience to AI, Brain Mind Institute, February 2021, Lausanne (online), Swiss.
• Oslo Life Science Conference: Precision Psychiatry, Combining Big Data with Stem Cells, University of Oslo, February 2021, Oslo (online), Norway.
• Inaugural Weizmann-Columbia Brain Symposium on The Adaptive Brain, Zuckerman Institute (Columbia University) and Weizmann Institute of Science, January 2021, New York City and Rehovot (online), USA and Israel.
• National Symposium on Drug Repurposing for Future Pandemics, Harvard University & Harvard Medical School on behalf of the National Science Foundation, November 2020, Boston (online), USA.
• ELRIG Drug Discovery Digital 2020, The European Laboratory Research and Innovation Group, October 2020, York (online), UK.
• 7th Annual Aging Research and Drug Discovery Meeting, September 2020, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the University of Copenhagen, September 2020, New York City and Copenhagen (online), USA and Denmark.
• Towards Multipurpose Models of Cortical Circuits, Allen Institute for Brain Science, August 2020, Seatle (online), USA.
• 21st Annual Drug Discovery Summit & 2nd Annual Neuroscience Drug Discovery Congress, Oxford Global, July 2020, Berlin (online), Germany.
• 29th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, Organization for Computational Neurosciences, July 2020, Melbourne (online), Australia.
• Optimising, Renormalising, Evolving, and Quantising Tensor Networks, Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems, June 2018, Dresden, Germany.
• Theory at Sea: Joint Workshop in Theoretical and Mathematical Physicists, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, University of Antwerp, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and Ghent University, June 2018, Oostduinkerke, Belgium.
• Quantum Paths in Low Dimensions: Theory and Experiment, The Erwin Schrödinger Institute, May 2018, Vienna, Austria.
• Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics, Perimeter Institute, Solvay Institutes, and APC Paris, May 2018, Brussels, Belgium.
• Tensor Networks: Structure, Applications, and Holography, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, December 2017, Stony Brook, USA.

Teaching Duties

• "Interpretable Siamese Neural Networks for Spike Metric Distillation" at the University of Oslo, Primary Supervisor, 2022-2023.
• "Multitask Learning and Task-Balancing for Neuroscience Model Distillation" at the University of Oslo, Primary Supervisor, 2022-2023.
• "Inception Loops for Generalized Sensory Stimuli Measurements" at the University of Oslo, Secondary Supervisor, 2022-2023.
• "Computational Neuroscience and The Allen Model of the Mouse Primary Visual Cortex" at the University of Oslo, Teaching Assistant, 2022.
• "Tensor Networks and Wavelet Theory" at Ghent University, master thesis reading committee member, Examiner for Oral Defense, 2018.
• "Introduction to Experimental Physics" and "Electromagnetism" at Ghent University, Teaching Assistant and Examiner, 2017 and 2018.

Service and Leadership

• NMBU REALTEK PhD Programme Evaluation Committee Member, 2022, Ås, Norway.
• Digibrain Meeting Organiser, 2021, Oslo, Norway.
• Mathematics Tutor, Solutio, 2015 - 2017, Hoeilaart, Belgium.
• Student Representative, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2012- 2017, Brussels, Belgium.