After concluding his PhD degree, he dedicated his postdoctoral scientific research to the study of Neurosciences, particularly in neurophysiology and cognition. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Life Sciences (IBILI, Coimbra) and at the Neuropsychiatry Unit at Champalimaud Foundation (Lisbon). He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute studying why certain neuronal populations and brain areas are more susceptible to damage in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). Using the information from neuroelectric recordings he will identify brain areas where neuronal activity is initially impaired in ALS and correlate these with detailed maps of brain organization. He expect to identify the intrinsic factors that define vulnerable neuronal populations in ALS.

Eileen completed her M.Sc. in Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin in 2018. Prior to that, she completed a B.S. in Neuroscience and Behavior and Irish Language and Literature at the University of Notre Dame. She joined the group in May 2019 as an EEG research assistant and began a Ph.D. in the NeuroMotor research team under the joint supervision of Asst. Prof. Bahman Nasseroleslami and Prof. Orla Hardiman in March 2020.

His project focuses on investigating brain-body connections. His research interests include Neuromuscular Engineering, Signal Processing, Biomedical System Design, Model-based Biomarker, and Neurophysiology.

Her main interest is to better understand what changes occur in the brain that underlies cognitive impairment in ALS and to find biomarkers that may be useful for earlier diagnosis and more specific treatment. Serena completed her BSc. and MSc. in Cognitive Psychology and Neurophysiology in Italy and moved to Dublin in 2021 to join the NeuroMotor research team as a Research Assistant.

Before joining the team, she was a research assistant at the neuroscience section of the National Research Council of Italy, investigating motor learning procedures in healthy subjects through electroencephalography signals and kinematic analysis. She graduated from Politecnico di Milano with a complete GPA in Biomedical Engineering in 2021, her master’s thesis investigated the effective connectivity in stroke cases and its alterations during the rehabilitation process. She got her bachelor’s in electronics engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology with honours.

Her research interests are: Neural Engineering, Computational Neuroscience, Motor Network Analysis, EEG, and Brain Connectivity.

During her degree, she conducted research investigating cortical dynamics associated with increased motor function, to progress self-induction and external modulation of corticomotor activity for the purpose of stroke rehabilitation. She focused on an innovative measure of brain activity: the evoked potentials produced by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), to understand the neural dynamics associated with various motor abilities. Helene concluded her bachelor’s thesis Neural Mechanisms Underlying Self-regulation of Corticospinal Excitability; a TMS – Evoked Potential (TEP) Pilot Study in the Translational Brain Health Lab under the supervision of Dr. Kathy Ruddy. She has now started as a research assistant in our lab elaborating on how brain, spinal and muscle signals differ in healthy and neurologically motor-impaired individuals.

He began a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at University College Dublin in 2016, studying visual cognition using EEG, which he completed in 2020. In 2020, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Behavioural Research Unit at the Economic and Social Research Institute, where he studied psychological factors related to household waste management, hot water usage, and the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2022, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Cognitive Neural Systems lab at University College Dublin, where he studied visual cognition and decision-making.

His role on the team was mostly in data science, applying machine learning techniques to EEG data. Research projects included data-driven subphenotyping of ALS patients, exploring techniques for improved prognosis/diagnosis, and investigating novel approaches to break up brain signals into their underlying components.

She was appointed as a Consultant Neurologist at Beaumont Hospital in 1996, and became a Fellow of Royal College of Physicians in Ireland in 2001. She was appointed the first Professor of Neurology in the country in 2013. In 2015 she was elected as a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. She is the recipient of a number of international honours and awards, including the first American Academy of Neurology Palatucci Award for Advocacy in Neurology (2003), the ALSA /American Academy of Neurology Sheila Essay Award in ALS (2009) and the International ALS Alliance Forbes Norris Award (2011). She is an advocate for multidisciplinary care, and the involvement of the voluntary sector in the delivery of services. She established the first Irish specialist multi-disciplinary services for Migraine, Motor Neuron Disease and Multiple Sclerosis providing “one-stop shops” for patients requiring medical, nursing and clinical professional interventions, in addition to access to specialist care coordinators.