Saskia Haegens, PhD | Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, Columbia University & New York State Psychiatric Institute

Associate PI at Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen

Alma Noor ElShafei, PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher 

Alma is a postdoc in the lab in Nijmegen. Alma uses MEG to study the role of different oscillatory mechanisms in shaping information processing.

Elie Rassi, PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher 

Elie is a postdoc in the lab in Nijmegen. Elie studies perceptual decision-making with MEG and electrophysiology, with an emphasis on the role of beta oscillations.

Ioanna Zioga, PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher 

Ioanna is a postdoc in the lab in Nijmegen, co-mentored by Andrea E. Martin. Ioanna uses EEG/MEG to study the neural correlates of creativity in language.

Inés Ibarra Lecue, PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher 

Inés is a postdoc in the lab in New York. Inés’ research focuses on the role of beta dynamics in forming flexible ensembles in the context of spatial working memory, using optogenetics and electrophysiological recordings.

Julio Rodriguez-Larios, PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher 

Julio is a postdoc in the lab in New York. Julio’s research focuses on the role of beta dynamics in forming flexible ensembles in the context of spatial working memory, using EEG.

Esra Al, PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher 

Esra is a postdoc in the lab in New York. Esra’s research focuses on heart-brain interactions, as well as other body-brain dynamics, using electrophysiology.

Yijia He, BSc | MSc Student 

Yijia is a student in the Data Science Master’s program at Columbia. Yijia joined the lab to  gain research and data analysis experience.

Zhening (Colin) Zhang, BSc | MSc Student 

Colin is a student in the Data Science Master’s program at Columbia. Colin joined the lab to  gain research and data analysis experience.

Julia Laventhall | Undergraduate Student 

Julia is a student at Barnard in New York. Julia joined the lab to learn more about EEG research and brain rhythms.

Gamze Bilgen, BA | MSc Student 

Gamze is a student in the Cognitive Neuroscience Master’s program at the University of Trento. Gamze joined the lab to  gain research and data analysis experience.

~Alumni~

Nele Ziegler, BSc | MSc Student 

Nele graduated from the Cognitive Neuroscience Master’s program in Nijmegen.

Yi Zhang, BSc | MSc Student 

Yi graduated from the Statistics Master’s program at Columbia.

Joey Zhou, MA | PhD student 

Joey is now a postdoc with Kia Nobre in Oxford.

Additya Sharma, MSc | Research Assistant 

Additya is now a PhD student in Amsterdam.

Melanie Wiehe, BSc | MSc Student 

Melanie is now a research assistant at Donders Institute.

Aarti Ramchandran, BSc | MSc Student 

Aarti graduated from the Biomedical Sciences Master’s program in Nijmegen. 

Martina Pandinelli, BSc | MSc Student 

Martina is now a PhD student with Pascal Fries in Frankfurt.

Luca Iemi, PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher 

Luca is now an assistant professor at Barnard College in NYC.

Djamari Oetringer | MSc Student 

Djamari is now pursuing a PhD in Artificial Intelligence in Nijmegen.

Corinne Orlemann | MSc Student 

Corinne is now pursuing a PhD at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam.

Wy Ming Lin | MSc Student 

Wy Ming is a student in the Neuroscience Graduate program in Tuebingen. 

Camille Gret | MSc Student 

Camille is now pursuing a PhD in Neuroscience in Marseille.

Anna Wilsch, PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher

Iske Bakker, PhD | Research Assistant

Jill Emmerzaal, MSc | Research Assistant