Carla Vollmoeller joined SCIoI as a student assistant in Project 41. After obtaining her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Heidelberg, she is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Computational Neuroscience at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) Berlin. In Project 41, Carla supports the computational, model-driven side of the interdisciplinary cooperation investigating mechanisms of self-organized criticality in animal collectives.