NCAS is built around team science. We combine cognitive neuroscience, clinical neuroscience, multimodal imaging, electrophysiology and brain stimulation to understand neural circuits and develop more adaptive ways of interacting with them.
Inge studies neural circuit mechanisms that support flexible behaviour and develops non-invasive, adaptive stimulation approaches to target those mechanisms. Her work combines EEG, TMS, tACS, neuroimaging and real-time neural decoding, with current translational projects in Parkinson’s disease, ageing and Alzheimer’s disease.
Gopika investigates beta–gamma coupling and its causal role in motor inhibition. Her work examines how tACS can influence cross-frequency coupling, whether stimulation shifts individual peak frequencies, and how stimulation effects differ between oscillatory and non-oscillatory components of neural activity.
Rick studies closed-loop interventions for memory improvement across translational models. His project bridges animal and human work to test how temporally precise stimulation of memory-related neural dynamics can improve memory and inform future interventions for ageing and Alzheimer’s disease.
ALZ-LOOP project →
Dominik investigates body–brain interactions using a multimodal combination of fMRI, EEG and TMS. By bringing together complementary measures of brain activity with causal stimulation, the project aims to understand how bodily and neural processes interact to shape cognition and behaviour.
Teun contributes to the human research arm of ALZ-LOOP, working with Rick on the development and evaluation of closed-loop interventions aimed at improving memory.
PhD 2026 · closed-loop technology for adaptive, activity-dependent neuromodulation
PhD 2026 · network approaches to neuromodulation in Parkinson’s disease