The NeurotechEU Symposium, entitled “Advancing Neurotechnology - Bridging Brains, Machines and Society”, will take place on 13 May 2025 at the University of Bonn on the occasion of the NeurotechEU Board of Rectors Meeting 2025. The scientific community is invited to attend and participate in discussions on the various aspects of neurotechnology. Come and listen to exciting talks by renowned scientists from our European University Alliance partners.
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Program
- 08:30 - 09:00 am: Registration
- 09:00 - 09:15 am: Welcome by Ilona Grunwald Kadow
- 09:15 - 10:45 am: Session 1: Fundamental and clinical neuroscience
Robert Harris
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
The microglial niche in neurodegeneration – understanding pathology and targeting for immunotherapy
Guillermina López-Bendito
Institute of Neuroscience, Miguel Hernández University-CSIC, Spain
Sensory Circuit Development: The interplay between spontaneous activity and transcriptional programs
Abdel el Manira
Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Modular circuits for flexible motor actions
- 11:15 am - 12:45 pm: Session 2: Neuroinformatic and neuromorphic systems
Tatjana Tchumatchenko
Institute for Experimental Epileptology and Cognition Research, University of Bonn Medical Center, Germany
Synaptic plasticity dynamics across space and time
Jürgen Gall
Institute of Computer Science, University of Bonn, Germany
Analyzing behavior in video recordings
Marcel van Gerven
Department of Artificial Intelligence, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, uu77, Netherlands
Neuromorphic computing for neurotechnology
- 12:45 - 02:00 pm: Lunch
- 02:00 - 04:00 pm: Session 3: Neurotechnology for health
Dafin Fior Muresanu
Department of Neuroscience, UMF Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Brain recovery - an integrated concept in a continuous care strategy
José M. Azorín
Systems Engineering and Automation Department, Miguel Hernández University, Spain
AI-powered brain-machine interfaces for neurorehabilitation with exoskeletons
Jeremie Dequidt
CRIStAL-Research Center in Computer Science, Signal and Automatics of Lille, University of Lille, France
Soft robotics for neurosurgery procedures
Paolo Gargiulo
Institute of Biomedical and Neural Engineering, Department of Engineering, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Novel paradigm to assess postural control response using high density EEG, virtual reality and moving platform
- 04:30 - 06:00 pm: Session 4: Neurometaphysics
Begüm Özkaynak
Department of Economics, Boğaziçi University, Turkey
Perspective in what we call “neurometaphysics” dimension in NeurotechEU
Olympia Colizoli
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, uu77, Netherlands
Neurophilosophy and the consciousness conundrum: Easy, hard, and real problems
Juliette Sénéchal
Faculty of Law, Politics and Economics, University of Lille, France
The legal protection of neural data - EU/USA comparative approaches
- 06:00 - 06:15 pm: Wrap-up
