I joined the IST as an IST Plus fellow in October 2018. Before that I was a postdoc at MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, and got my PhD at the Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences. In my work I try to understand fundamental limits and principles which govern the function of sensory systems. To that end I analyze the statistical structure of natural stimuli, develop optimal processing strategies which might be approximated by biological systems and verify theoretical predictions through experimental data analysis. To read more about my work please see my homepage (http://pub.ist.ac.at/~wmlynars/).