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Our Highlights…
Running our Share!
31/03/2026 The lab was on the move supporting The Dublin Neurological Institute and Brain Tumour Ireland with two 5K runs to raise awareness and funds for these charities. March also saw the visit form Dr. Pushkar Deshpande from GN Hearing, who presented their Brain Works vision and the Listen To This Master Class. Rahil Mahmood also presented his work on virtual reality sound localization at the International Undergraduate Surgical Conference.
Is everything better together?
28/02/2026 Setting up our new EEG Hyperscanning Equipment!
Thanks to a grant form the Higher Education Authority in Ireland and the Research Booster Programme at Trinity College Dublin, the lab acquired a dedicated 4-person hyperscanning suite. This new equipment will allow us to investigate group dynamics in vulnerable populations like people with intellectual disability, mild cognitive impairment, sensory impairments,etc. We are really excited by the road ahead with this capability that also support the Collevtive Minds innitiative. Our equipment is comprised of four 32-channels mBT Smarting Pro systems.
Wrapping-up the year at the Lopez Valdes Lab
19/12/2025 James Kevin Bradshaw and Salma Ahmed presented research posters a the 2025 TCBE Research Day where we also had contributions from the Reilly lab and the Di Liberto lab for the Neural Engineering part of the smposium. We also had some time to wind down and have fun… to mark the start of the holiday season we had a joint lab social with some food and old school arcades! To end the academic activities of the year, Prof. Lopez Valdes visited Deusto University in Bilbao, Spain to give a guest lecture to their Neuropsychology MSc titled Appliend Neural Engineering for Brain Health.
Introducing Dr. Sara Carta!
30/11/2025 Sara Carta officially became the first PhD from our lab to defend her Thesis. Remember, remember the 5th of Novemeber… when Sara completed her Viva Examination. With Profs. Lars Meyer and Robert Whelan as examiners. Huge congraulations to Sara and to her supervisroy team with Dr. Emina Alickovic and Dr. Johannez Zaar from Eriksholm Research Centre and Prof. Giovanni Di Liberto and Prof. Alejandro Lopez Valdes from Trinity Collge Dublin. Also in November, but later in the month, we presented three conference papers at the IEEE EMBS Neural Engineering Conference in San Diego, CA.
Great start of the year!
25/01/2025 This January saw Sara Carta wrap-up the data collection for her Ph.D. In all, she carried out over 60 EEG data collection sessions, 40 Audiometries and 40 cognitive tests! Stay tuned for the results to come! Well done Sara! We also participated in the discussions around the The Brain: Past, Present and Future at the Robert Boyle Winter School.
Just before the new Academic Year
26/09/2025 Our summer activities wrapped-up with intensity! In August, we held the final PhD meeting with for Sara Carta’s project at Eriksholm Research Centre in Denmark, whe had a great discussion with our industry collaborators Johannes Zaar and Emina Alickovic. In September whe had the launch of the Collective Minds Lab at the Hyperscanning FLUX 2025 Pre-conference Workshop co-organised in collaboration with Dr. Daphne van der Putte from Artinis, Prof. Pascal Vrticka from the University of Essex and Profs. Shane O’Mara and Giovanni Di Liberto from Trinity College Dublin. Finally, in the spirit of team building, we participated in the Trinity Centre for Biomedical Engineering sports day, just in time for the start of the new academic year!
IEEE EMBS Conference in Copenhagen
31/07/2025 A very exciting first PhD conference experience for James Bradshaw and Anneliese Walsh. Both presented their work related to ear-EEG and multi-class classification of dementia at the IEEE EMBS Conference in Copenhagen. We reconnected with many old friends and discussed research partnerships with collaborators. The Neural Engineering Group also had fantastic representation from the Reilly Lab with Professor Richard Reilly, Daniel Diez Clarke and Aoibheann Gil.
After the conference, we were delighted to be hosted for hand-on ear-EEG workshop at the Center for Ear-EEG in Aarhus University by Professor Preben Kidmose and his team, including Bowen Duan.
From Mobile EEG to Creative Brain Week!
30/06/2025 In June we had the pleasure to host Melanie Klapprott and Lara Papin from the Neuropsychology Lab at Oldenburg University for Mobile EEG Seminar. TCIN celebrated its 25th anniversary with a Neuroscience Research Day where Anneliese, James and Prof. Lopez Valdes presented our latest research and perspectives. Also in June, another edition of Creative Brain Week where Prof. Lopez Valdes participated in a panel discussion on the neuroscience of activating kindness.