About

Hi, my name is Jan (the "ja" is pronounced like in yacht not like in jam). I am a postdoc at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, in the lab of Dr. Michal Ramot's lab studying our most complex organ – the brain, and the world's biggest enigma – human behaviour. My projects are about face perception, memory and complex cognitive processes. To find answers to our questions, we combine simple behavioural experiments with state-of-the-art functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) imaging. This enables us to directly investigate people's brains when they perform certain tasks.

I have dreamed of creating my own website since I was a kid. Spending several months at the beginning of my PhD preparing my server and programming online behavioural experiments made me believe that I could make it.

I didn't want to use tools like Github's Jekyll, Hydejack, or other templates. LLMs and similar tools didn't exist at that time but it applies to them as well. It would make me feel like a cheater because with these tools, one doesn't need to invest much effort in creating a wonderful webpage. I wanted to start from scratch and build it all by myself. Only after seeing a friend's webpage, which he also developed from the ground up, I found the inspiration and courage to sit down and start working.

It's not as perfect yet as I want it to be (and probably never will), but it's a start. As Karel Čapek said: The true source of knowledge comes from an error.