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19 Oct 2022Wim Vanduffel joins EBRAINS Board of Directors
EBRAINS is pleased to announce the appointment of Wim Vanduffel from KU Leuven to the EBRAINS Board of Directors.
As a member of the Board of Directors he will contribute to the further development of the EBRAINS research infrastructure.
Wim Vanduffel obtained his PhD from the KU Leuven at the Laboratory of Neuro-and Psychophysiology. After a postdoc in the lab of Guy Orban, he became first Instructor (2002) and afterwards Assistant professor (2004) at the Dept. of Radiology of the Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA. Currently, he still performs part of his research at the Martinos Center for Biomedical imaging and the Massachusetts General Hospital.
In 2004 he was appointed part-time assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the KU Leuven, Belgium. In 2007, he became Associate Professor and since 2010 he is full Professor. Currently, he is also administrative head of the research group Neurophysiology at the KU Leuven. KU Leuven recently became an associate member of EBRAINS.
He is also Deputy Leader of the 'Mechanisms for conscious and unconscious perception' task in the Human Brain Project.
"I very much look forward to helping to shape the future of EBRAINS for the neuroscience community in Europe and Belgium."
Associate member of EBRAINS Board of Directors
"I am pleased to welcome Prof. Vanduffel to the EBRAINS Board of Directors. He brings with him a wealth of experience in research, in particular with regard to functional neuroimaging, as well as outstanding expertise in data analyses. He has been a passionate supporter of the emergence of the Belgian Node of EBRAINS and has a thorough understanding of the needs of the neuroscience community which our Research Infrastructure aims to serve”.
Ebrians Board’s Chairman
