• Shanna Kulik

    When I was trained to be a physical therapist, I realised I missed the theoretical challenge and noticed that only practical work just wasn’t it for me. I therefore continued my education and started the research master of Human Movement Sciences at the VU. There, I focused on neurodegenerative diseases and did a one-year internship…

  • Jolanda Derks

    In 2014 I started my PhD project after finishing a master in Neurosciences. During my bachelor and master I enjoyed working in the lab as well as spending time behind the computer analysing MRI images. In this PhD project I have the opportunity to combine both modalities, which is challenging, both also very exciting. In…

  • Linda Douw (PI)

    I’m a clinical neuropsychologist, trying to make sense of our brain and our behavior. I like these for all their complexity, and use graph theory to embrace not only the individual components making up the brain and behavior, but also their interactions. In this video I explain my research in 180s (in Dutch). Across everything I…

  • New paper: the connectomic profile of glioma patients and its clinical correlates

    In our latest paper we show that in glioma patients connections between different brain areas are affected on a broad scale. Specifically connections linked to brain regions that play a central role in information processing (hubs) are altered. By analysing 71 functional MRI scans of glioma (brain tumor) patients and a cohort of healthy controls…

  • Bernardo Maciel

    I’m a Biomedical Engineer from Portugal, interested in the frontier between engineering, neuroscience and psychiatry. I am especially passionate about using artificial intelligence for synthesis and analysis of biomarkers of psychiatric/neurologic disease. In particular, I’ve been keen on connectomics as a framework to make sense of the unfathomable complexity of the brain. I have developed…

  • Dorien Maas

    As a neuroscientist, I am fascinated by how cognitive problems can be treated to improve the well-being of patients with brain diseases. Various brain diseases present with similar cognitive symptomatology and I am interested in what brain mechanisms underlie these shared cognitive symptoms. I approach this problem by studying the role of neurons and glia…

  • Eduarda Centeno

    I hold a B.Sc in Biotechnology and an M.Sc in Neuroscience from the Neurasmus Programme at Université de Bordeaux and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. With over eight years of research experience, I have developed expertise in diverse fields, including Open Science, computational neuroscience, signal processing, data analysis, Python pipeline development, electrophysiology, cell culture, molecular biology, cell…