Lectures and seminars NeurotechEU seminar
Karolinska Institutet will be hosting two Neurotech speakers on the 24th of October
StratNeuro and NeurotechEU will be hosting Jan Buitelaar (Radboud University) and Renaud Jardri (University of Lille) for an exciting session on neuropsychiatry and developmental disorders.
After the seminar, we invite you to join us for fika, followed by a special session for PhD students. This is a unique opportunity for students to have an informal discussion with the speakers and gain valuable insights.
Don't miss out on this fantastic event!
Renaud Jardri
"Advances in fMRI capture hallucinatory experiences: from biomarker validation to clinical applications"
Professor of child & adolescent psychiatry at Lille university and senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. At the clinical level, he currently heads (i) the reference centre for rare psychiatric diseases, and (ii) a voice clinic for children and adolescents with hallucinations at the Lille university hospital. In terms of research, he has been trained in cognitive neuroscience (PhD) and computational modelling (post-doc) and leads a research team at INSERM, exploring beliefs & perception in physiological and pathological conditions.
Jan Buitelaar
"Exploring functional connectomics in ADHD and autism”
Jan Buitelaar is a professor of psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry at the Radboud University Medical Centre, and at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He has a strong clinical and research interest in neuropsychiatric disorders as ADHD, autism, and aggression related disorders, and is involved in pharmacological, cognitive, clinical, genetic, and neuroimaging studies in these disorders. His current active research is focused on translational studies aiming to identify new molecular targets for ADHD and autism through matching preclinical models to human imaging genetics studies. His research is supported by numerous grants from the European Union, NIH, and from the Dutch Medical Research Council. He has published around 1100 peer-reviewed scientific papers with more than 50,000 citations and is among the top 1% of most often cited researchers worldwide.
He has been awarded several honours, such as the research price of the Dutch Society of Psychiatry in 2011, the international travelling speaker fellowship 2011/2012 of the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, the Merz Guest Professorship at Goethe University in Frankfurt in 2014, the Oeuvre Award of European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ESCAP in 2019, the Lifetime Achievement Award of European Network for Hyperkinetic Disorder Eunethydis in 2022, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society for Autism Research in 2023. He is an elected member of the Academia Europaea, and vice-president of the ADHD World Federation. He has been knighted in the order of the Dutch Lion.