Nishant Joshi

About me

I'm Nishant -- a computational neuroscientist and research engineer with a PhD from Radboud University at the Donders Institute, Netherlands. My work sits at the intersection of single-neuron electrophysiology, neuromodulation, and scalable machine learning pipelines for high-dimensional biological data.

During my PhD, I developed analysis frameworks to study how neuromodulatory inputs shape cell-type-specific information transfer in cortical circuits. I also worked on reproducible open-source workflows and FAIR data practices through an MSCA-funded secondment at the Netherlands eScience Center.

If I am not working I can be found outdoors, cycling, running, squashing, or playing any sport (actually). Well, I am also indoors, and when I am, I noodle on my guitar and write stuff. Though I prefer outdoors, so yeah.

Recent publications

Joshi, N., van Der Burg, S., Celikel, T., & Zeldenrust, F. (2025). Neuronal identity is not static: An input-driven perspective, PLOS Computational Biology, 21, e1013821, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013821

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Joshi, N., Yan, X., ..., Celikel, T., & Zeldenrust, F. (2026). Neuromodulatory Control of Cortical Function: Cell-Type Specific Regulation of Neuronal Information Transfer, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A, 123 (43), e2609893123, doi:10.1073/pnas.2609893123

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