NCL wants you! New openings available
Three new PhD positions and three engineering openings have just become available at the NCL. Take a look at our Vacancies page for more information!
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SECURED: Scaling up Secure Processing, Anonymization and Generation of Health Data
The Horizon Proposal SECURED has just been awarded and the Erasmus MC via the NCL is a proud member of it! In an effort to offer the best possible decision support for medical personnel, patients and their carers, healthcare providers are gradually adopting novel Big-Data analytics technologies. The goal of SECURED is to provide rock-solid,
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SEPTON: Security Protection Tools for Networked Medical Devices
SEPTON is a recently awarded Horizon proposal that aims to address the gap in the generic technologies and processes on IT network infrastructure in the health sectors and modern security requirements. SEPTON assumes a holistic approach towards reinforcing networked-medical-device (NMD) security within the healthcare centre premises. The project will advance cutting-edge solutions in healthcare cybersecurity
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5 september 2022: Joint keynote in Opening Academic Year event in TU Delft
How can smart technology help to better understand brain diseases such as epilepsy? And how could sensors, implants and ultrasound techniques help predict and prevent epileptic seizures in the future? It is possible when different disciplines work closely together! Medical Delta professor Prof. Dr. Wouter Serdijn along with Dr. Christos Strydis of the Erasmus MC
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Mario Negrello published a book entitled Computational Modeling of the Brain
This volume offers an up-to-date overview of essential concepts and modern approaches to computational modelling, including the use of experimental techniques related to or directly inspired by them. The book introduces, at increasing levels of complexity and with the non-specialist in mind, state-of-the-art topics ranging from single-cell and molecular descriptions to circuits and networks. Four
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Dutch Gravitation grant “Brain Interface Initiative (DBI2)” awarded
The DBI2 proposal has been awarded a total funding of 21.9 million euros to conduct 10-year-long scientific research in brain-machine interfaces, as part of the Gravitation program. The mission of DBI2 is the fostering of a novel, integrated approach to brain-machine interfaces in which the Neurocomputing Lab is taking as part on the behalf of the
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Hooking up the Human Brain Project and our Olivocerebellar System
Our recently awarded ArborIO project has officially made us a partner of the Human Brain Project initiative. The official start of the ArborIO took place Tuesday the 16th of February. The project involves partners in Switzerland (CSCS), Italy (University of Pavia / Trieste), and is concerned with producing a human scale model of the olivocerebellar
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Graphcore via Microsoft Azure offers NCL Private-Preview Access
Starting September 1st, 2020, the NCL was selected for Private-Preview access to the Graphcore IPU technology via Dell and, ultimately, Microsoft on the Azure Cloud. This is an excellent opportunity to (a) test-drive the Graphcore technology on behalf of the whole Erasmus MC along with a few other labs; (b) rehash existing experimental platforms currently
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The HBP welcomes NCL as new Partner
ArborIO is a new project that will work on an Arbor Implementation of the Inferior Olive Network. Coordinated by the Neurocomputing Lab in Erasmus Medical Center, Neuroscience Dept. For this project NCL will partner with the University of Pavia, Dept. of Cognitive and Brain Sciences (UNIPV). The HBP has awarded about 560k euros for the
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Dr. Strydis wins 3rd place for best research idea in Delft Health Initiative competition 2020
During the annual Delft Health Initiative contest for the best research idea, dr. Christos Strydis won 3rd place with his project proposal: “Ensemble, Closed-Loop, Epilepsy-Prevention System (ECLEPSys)”, along with a 10k-Euro award to kickstart the project. Based on a significant body of research already conducted within the Neuroscience Dept. on epilepsy, ECLEPSys advocates the use
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