Thrilled to share that I have been awarded an NWO Vidi grant! Over the next years, I’ll study the role of the corticothalamic circuitry in auditory attention using ultra-high MRI, intracranial EEG, and computational modeling @MaCSBio https://t.co/BdDbQppeH7
We've built a large and detailed scalable model of the hippocampus including realistic astrocytic territories and neuron-astrocyte synaptic mechanisms. If you are interested in applying for an MSCA PF or @HFSP fellowship in 2026, come work with me @MaCSBio @MaastrichtU.
Many thanks to EBRAINS' management to heed our call at last! I am looking forward to participating to this effort and I am really excited to see the community take the reins./end
Really pleased to see this call finally go out! The Science & Technology Committee of EBRAINS that I chaired over the last 3 years had been pushing for such a roadmap, and did a lot of preparatory work taking inspiration from similar efforts in particle physics to plan for one./1
https://t.co/8ShCR0KXT1
More than 17k submissions to the @MSCActions PF call this year, up 7k from its "historic" baseline at around 10k. I am not quite sure what it says about R&D in Europe but I am not sure it's good.
Over the last 2 years, I have had the privilege to be enrolled in the Polymath Initiative @TheGCSP. This initiative is generously supported by https://t.co/8LVIBjv78V. The 1st paper to come out of this work is now published in Strategic Security Analyses https://t.co/CH18jgvMWF.
I was recently interviewed by @yacadeuro and you can now listen to that podcast here https://t.co/Gho45zJmLB. We talk about neuroscience, academic careers and science policy.
My department @MaCSBio is looking to support 2 MSCA PF candidates this year (deadline 10 Sept. 2025).
Topics:
* metabolic modelling of brain cells;
* sparse coding in SNNs.
DM me if interested.
@Mariecurie_alum @MSCActions
New preprint from @MaCSBio here https://t.co/D6NDRkQd35
Metabolic task analysis reveals distinct metabotypes in end-stage dilated cardiomyopathy
Nihant et al.
Extending human healthspans and reducing the impacts of aging requires long-term research investments.
@RenaudJolivet & colleagues from @MaastrichtU emphasize the need for funding large-scale and systems-based aging research in their @FrontPolicyLabs policy outlook ⬇️
@MaCSBio is looking for candidates to support for the MSCA PF later this year for projects in cellular computational neuroscience and computational metabolism of glial cells.
I am at the @Mariecurie_alum meeting in Krakow these days if you'd like to meet me for a chat.
There are many good brain RNAseq datasets out there. Are there equivalent good proteome datasets, ideally at the whole genome level, for healthy brain tissue? Links appreciated.