News

• Beatrice de Gelder at the IEEE Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'24) conference
  

• The ERC Synergy Grant holders meeting took place in Tübingen, Germany, this month. The first picture is from all our lab members together. The second picture includes the other labs from the grant, too. The following pictures include the dinner we shared, discussions during our meeting and trying out a set-up provided by the lab in Tübingen regarding furture stimuli.
  

• Our lab organised a farewell dinner for our visiting PhD student from Barcelona, Brenda Ryan
  

• Our lab members participating in a wall-sit challenge during a lab dinner at Peppe's place this April
  

• The ERC Synergy Grant holders meeting took place in Trier, Germany, this month
  

• Baichen and Peppe presented their posters at the Society for Neuroscience conference in San Diego, USA, in November
  

• Marta presented at the Neurobiology of Higher Cognitive Functions workshop in Erice, Italy in September
  

• The team all together in Maastricht
  

• Beatrice and Giuseppe went to the second plenary meeting of MINDSPACES: Art driven adaptive outdoors and indoors design in Athens. In the picture below, Peppe is explaining our lab research. To read more about MINDSPACES, click here.
  

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• Beatrice was awarded, together with two colleagues from Germany and Belgium, with the prestigious European Synergy Grant. This grant will suppport an ambitious research project focused on the investigation of how our brains process other people’s body language.It is the first time that an ERC Synergy Grant has been awarded to a researcher at Maastricht University (UM). Click here to read more information about it.

• What a better way to celebrate the good weather than enjoying a wonderful dinner together!

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• The 16th of May was an important day for the lab since two of our members successfully defended their dissertations: Tahnée Engelen with “Mapping the influence of social threat in the brain: from action observation to body ownership” while Minye Zhan with “The invisible body: The neural mechanisms of non-conscious and conscious processing of emotional bodies”. Congratulations to both of you!

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• Not everything is work! The lab recently enjoyed a wonderful dinner together.

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