Associate Professor
Mariska Vansteensel
ABOUT Mariska
Mariska Vansteensel’s primary research goal is to use the wealth of neuroscientific knowledge directly for the benefit of people with disease or disability. She coordinates the Utrecht BCI lab’s research on implantable ECoG-based BCIs, including the CortiCom, INTENSE, NOTION and INTRECOM projects, which aim to develop and test advanced implantable BCI solutions for home use. Additionally, she aims to make BCIs available for traditionally underserved groups, such as pediatric populations with severe motor impairment. Her research follows a user-centered approach, ensuring that BCI technologies align the needs, requirements and characteristics of end-users. By advocating for standardized reporting, encouraging involvement of clinicians and other BCI stakeholders in BCI development, and by addressing important ethical challenges associated with implanted BCIs, she aims to contribute to responsible clinical implementation of BCIs.
Address
UMC Utrecht Brain Center
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery
UMC Utrecht
Contact Information
Email: m.j.vansteensel @ umcutrecht.nl
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Career & Education
PhD-position student at the Laboratory for Neurophysiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, NL
Post-doc at the Laboratory for Neurophysiology, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, NL
Post-doc at the Department of Neurosurgery, UMC Utrecht, NL
Assistant Professor at the Department of Neurosurgery, UMC Utrecht, NL
Associate Professor at the Department of Neurosurgery, UMC Utrecht, NL
Awards & Prizes
Article ‘Encoding of kinetic and kinematic movement parameters in the sensorimotor cortex: A Brain‐Computer Interface perspective’ one of top 10% most downloaded articles of Eur J Neurosci between January 2018 and December 2019.
