Dharanish Rajendra (PhD student)

The topic of my PhD is to understand the learning in animals and the effects of developmental processes, social learning and games on it. I am also interested in how these processes are placed in an evolutionary context. I use the methods of dynamic programming and reinforcement learning to understand these phenomena and answer these questions.

• 2023-present: PhD
  University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
  Thesis: Learning & evolution

• 2022-2023: Internship
  Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany
  Project: Evolution of synchronized reproduction in a marine insect

• 2021-2022: Master of Science (Physics)
  Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
  Thesis: Trait variations and stochasticity in a savanna-forest ecosystem

• 2017-2021: Bachelor of Science (Physics)
  Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
  Thesis: Packing and emergence of the ordering of rods in a spherical monolayer