Frieda Born is a PhD student in the Machine Learning Group at TU Berlin and a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. Prior to this, she completed a research master’s degree in neuroscience at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

At TU Berlin, her research focuses on examining how insights from human cognition can be used in machine learning systems to address the need for improving the alignment between machine learning models and human representations and behavior. At the Max Planck Institute, she mainly conducts neuroimaging research on the interaction between working memory and long-term memory. Combing these two research interests, her ongoing research projects study how context and memory shape human representations and behavior.