Wim Vanduffel joins 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.