Dr. Paola Pinti (co-chair for fNIRS Reliability Working Group) – Senior Research Laboratory Developer at Birkbeck, University of London, and Honorary Research Associate at University College London, UK. Expert in the use of fNIRS to study brain activity from infancy to adulthood as well as algorithm development and data analytics.
Dr. Chiara Bulgarelli (co-chair for fNIRS Reliability Working Group) – Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Expert in the use of fNIRS to study brain development from infancy to toddlerhood as well as in fNIRS-based functional connectivity methods.
Prof. Sobana Wijeakumar – Assistant Professor at University of Nottingham, UK. Expert in fNIRS data analysis and application of fNIRS to study brain development across the lifespan and in rural settings.
Dr. Frédéric Lange – Senior Research Associate at University College London, UK. Expert in NIRS hardware development and testing, phantoms, as well as application of optical technologies on developmental populations.
Lorenzo represents the Infant Pain and Somatosensory Imaging (IPSI) group at University College London. He is an expert in the functional analysis of somatosensory and pain processing in the preterm human brain. He is a Medical Research Foundation Fellow and leads a multi-disciplinary group including bioengineers, neuroscientists and clinicians.
Dr. Sarah Lloyd-Fox – Research Fellow at University of Cambridge, UK. Expert in optimising fNIRS for use with developmental populations as well as develop field-friendly neuroimaging and behavioural toolkits for use in low income settings.
Dr. Alexander von Lühmann – Head of the “Intelligent Biomedical Sensing (IBS) Lab” at BIFOLD, TU Berlin, Germany. Expert in NIRS hardware development, data analytics and machine learning, as well as in standardization of fNIRS practices.
Prof. Lauren Emberson – Associate Professor at University of British Columbia, Canada. Expert in the use of fNIRS to study brain development in preterm babies and young infants as well as data analytics and standardization.