On Friday, the 8th of December 2017, Carlotte had her IGSN graduation day. She had already gloriously defended her PhD thesis entitled „Categories in the pigeon brain: From brain function to behavior“ many months before. Even her old Master thesis advisor Miko Colombo had taken all the way from New Zealand for that occasion. But Charlotte is worth it. For sure. In her experimental work she had managed to give the meanwhile long established categorization research in pigeons a completely new direction. Charlotte could demonstrate that we should not look for exemplar or prototype cells in vain but should look for the wisdom of the population code. This provides a completely new way of looking at categorization processes. And she had introduced a novel tool, digital embryos, that is now the trademark of the whole SFB 874. What a success story! The IGSN ceremony was beautiful. Only Onur had his usual bad hair day. But nobody saw that since all eyes were spot on Charlotte.

Congratulations Charlotte! We are proud of you!