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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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/c3ba3df1-43a0-40bb-89ca-50898b3cfcdf/Nov2025.jpg News - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/13426c87-ec9f-4c5f-99e9-80021e962152/Flux_TCBE_2025.jpg News - 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! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/6e392263-8c2d-42d8-8382-e2ebc94a96c0/EMBC_25.png News - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/9a340460-f78c-42e1-917f-6045a0950337/TCIN_Day_2025.png News - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/9aa35b41-a727-4c4a-ad36-19498a9861e0/GBHI2025_comp.png News - Global Brain Health Institute in Lima! 27/05/2024 This year’s GBHI annual meeting and AAIC Satellite Symposium took place in Lima, Peru. An amazing place for connections, learning, promotion of brain health and food. It was great to see the progress of GBHI projects in which we are involved. For an overview of those projects visit our GBHI Project page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/a34a4791-ac56-4b92-9e4b-f3476ea86f05/March_News.jpg News - A March full of action 31/03/2025 This March was full with action in the lab! Anneliese Walsh presented her PhD work at the early career researcher day of the Dementia Research Network Ireland. She won a best presentation award! Sara Carta left for a secondment to Denmark at Eriksholm Research Center to spend time with her industry supervisors Emina Alickovic and Johannes Zaar. She is on her way back to wrap-up her PhD! Together with the Reilly Lab, Neural Engineering at Trinity participated in the Trinity on The Move Day, sponsored by the School of Engineering. This event helped raising money for the Student Hardship Fund (you can donate too here). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/d1d6866b-812a-49a6-85a1-2203a159eb7e/Jan_25.png News - 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! 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The event was organized by Otic Hearing and Speech Center and Oticon Export for hearing care professionals in Hong Kong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/ac128dd7-6b7c-4b3b-8cf8-afbb6a815b11/Picture1.png News 2022 Sensors for Brain Health in Argentina 02/09/2022 Professor Lopez Valdes travelled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to give a series of lectures on sensors and sensor platforms for brain health applications as part of the Salud Cerebral Global course. The course was a initiative from the BrainLat Institute with support from GBHI and with funding from the Interamerican Development Bank. He also participated in a panel discussion at the Behavioral and Brain Sciences: A Call to Action series while visiting the Universidad of San Andres. This was a great opportunity to interact with brain health professionals and disseminate the message of Applied Neural Engineering for Brain Health! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/5115d7a3-0760-4811-b09d-7c953acb32e0/Secondment.png News 2022 - Welcome to MOSAICS! 14/07/2022 We hosted the supervisory team from Radboud UMC and Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour to officially kick-off the secondment project of Ignacio as part of his PhD with MOSAICS. We are delighted to be part of this collaboration! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/253f8ae2-d9b7-42cd-857b-603254351663/Picture1.png News 2022 - Busy June for Sara Carta! 30/06/2022 It has been a busy month for Sara! She attended CHSCOM 2022 to present a poster on her work related to hierarchical speech processing in hearing aid users in Linkoping, Sweden. After that, she visited Eriksholm Research Centre in Snekkersten, Denmark, for the first time, to give a talk about her PhD project. Finally, she presented online at the Eriksholm Symposium to an audience across the Demant group. Great to see her come back with more ideas to test forward and inspired by her trip! Welcome Back Sara! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/27bf9ae8-ede1-41e7-976a-f81373789ca0/Capture.PNG News 2022 - We are Online! 31/05/2022 The Lab website and social media channels went live today! https://www.lovalab.net/news-archive-2023 daily 0.75 2025-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/cd21b700-c3ef-43d3-bd37-f59b5dbfe368/GBHILD2023.JPG News 2023 - End of the conference season with the GBHI Leadership Retreat 2023 28/10/2023 The new GBHI Atlantic Fellows for Brain Health Equity convened in Accra, Ghana for a week of transformative experiences. Understanding disparities, implementation challenges and learning collaborative strategies to drive change in the field of Brain Health Equity. I was fortunate to be a facilitator for this amazing group. Great things ahead! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/033452b6-4531-4cf0-8832-ec243cad8d45/MBT2023.JPG News 2023 - Methods in Mobile EEG Conference 2.0 19/09/2023 A great showcase of mobile EEG methods organized by mbt in Belgrade. Our lab presented the latest results on our hyperscanning studies. This was a truly inspirational conference with great talks and a lot of food for thought! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/ac61b86d-36fb-455e-9f16-681898b50eec/ISP2023.jpg News 2023 - Interspeech Conference 27/08/2023 It was great to welcome Ignacio back to Dublin and see him present the work of his MOSAICS secondment. To see the effects of spectro-temporal degradation in TRF analysis is something else! more to come on that… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/2f4f748f-fe77-4f02-aa87-87d7c9586ae2/EMBC2023.jpg News 2023 - IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference 28/07/2023 From Mexico to Australia! The lab showcased the work from Sean Farrel and Nathan Shields on how ‘The Mind’ card game promotes brain synchronization in hyperscanning EEG recordings. This conference always at the intersection of engineering and medicine. The keynotes highlighted how integrative our field can be. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/cdf1a753-fc01-41e1-98fc-1c5fd60bd59f/GBHICon20023_web.png News 2023 - Start of the conference season with the GBHI Annual Conference and AAIC Satellite Symposium 2023 01/06/2023 The Global Brain Health Institute made its way to Mexico City to have the annual conference, connect and get inspired with brain health leaders across the world. The GBHI presence at the AAIC Satellite Meeting that took place after was extremely powerful. We are now open for new applications to the GBHI Fellowship to start in September 2024. Apply Here! A new research capacity building grant was also announced during the event a great opportunity to strengthen Brain Health Research! Details Here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/6c7071a6-a8de-43ee-9e84-95f7cef92f1b/CBW_Panel.png News 2023 - Panel discussion during Creative Brain Week 2023 08/03/2023 As part o the events of Creative Brain Week 2023, Prof. Lopez Valdes participated in a panel discussion with Prof. Rhodri Cusack on the theme of Neuroscience and imagining cultures of care – Groups, Development, Empathy? The video recording of the panel discussion is available in our research videos section https://www.lovalab.net/news-archive-2024 daily 0.75 2025-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/56390c06-8fe9-4d2e-86a5-e66b162f71fa/VR_Day_TCBE.png News 2024 - End of the Year Dissemination Spree at the LoVaLab 12/12/2024 Two events to close the 2024. 1) International VR day on November 23rd saw Rahil and Lila present their current work on a VR sound localization tool for single sided CI users; 2) Sara Carta presenting a poster on her latest work on attention switching at the TCBE Research day on the 5th of December. Closing down a great year of research and dissemination for the lab! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/c40cb958-e8e8-4bb4-ae17-58c17d7e27fe/PGrad_Symp.png News 2024 - School of Engineering Postgraduate Research Symposium 22/10/2024 James Bradshaw and Anneliese Walsh presented their research project at the 2nd Postgraduate Research Symposium of the School of Engineering at Trinity College Dublin. Anneliese Walsh received an award for best presentation among 1st and 2nd year PhD projects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/bb4e8d0c-a8b9-4656-83ec-58d25608631c/ERN24.png News 2024 - European Researcher’s Night 2024 27/09/2024 In collaboration with Anusha Moran and Nathan Shields (ex-lab member) our lab was present at European Researcher’s Night 2024 showcasing real-time EEG signal monitoring and our research projects to the public. This was possible thanks to funding from Trinity College START, the Trinity Trust and the School of Engineering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/81126c43-b402-4943-a4b1-66deb5e67728/PhD_Start.png News 2024 - New PhD students in the Lopez Valdes Lab 04/09/2024 James Kevin Bradshaw and Anneliese Walsh have started their PhD projects after each being awarded a Trinity Research Doctorate Award. Their projects will investigate social disengagement and brain health metrics with unobtrusive EEG technology. on the 18/10/2024 we held the official kick-off meeting with the presence of Professor Preben Kidmose as a collaborator in these two projects from the Center for ear-EEG at Aarhus University in Denmark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/5324ab28-502c-461d-bc16-d2ef2d3fb8a8/EMBC2024_comp.png News 2024 - IEEE EMBS Conference in Orlando 15/07/2024 Alex Kennedy presented his MAI work on Brain Synchronization Dynamics at the IEEE EMBS Conference in Orlando, Florida. The Neural Engineering Group also had representation from the Reilly Lab with Professor Richard Reilly and Thomas Hartigan. Great space to meet collaborators and friends! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/2a1a99ac-d2af-463d-be76-8e61ed3ac81e/GBHI2024_comp.png News 2024 - Global Brain Health Institute in Capetown! 17/05/2024 This year’s GBHI annual meeting and AAIC Satellite Symposium took place in Capetown, South Africa. An amazing place for connections, learning and promotion of brain health. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/665acba7-56dc-4e0c-a5c2-03794512b623/CBW24.png News 2024 - Dementia Researcher Podcast and Creative Brain Week 2024 12/03/2024 As part o the events of Creative Brain Week 2024, Prof. Lopez Valdes participated in a neuroscience chorus with Prof. Lorina Naci on the theme of Connection: How are people connected and what to? What connections do people ignore? Can connection be nurtured? Are we disconnected? We also re-surface the Dementia Researcher podcast episode delving into GBHI and the exeperience of Global Brain Health Fellows. The video recordings of the podcast and the neuroscience chorus are available in our research videos section https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/e89bd99c-cb0f-44a0-b6f5-17a6d56d289b/Image.jpg News 2024 - Neural Engineering for Everyone! 25/01/2024 We were awarded a TCD Trust Grant from the Trinity College Association and Trust to purchase 4 EEG systems for teaching, outreach and dissemination of neural engineering to the wider community. Really looking forward to showing curious minds, how active a brain can be! If you are interested in participating in a work shop get in touch via our contact page. This support is only possible through the benefits of the Affinity Credit Card program that allows for the TCD Grant scheme to exist and support a wide variety of College projects where funding is not available from mainstream resources. https://www.lovalab.net/collective-minds daily 0.75 2025-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/6c30238c-ab8c-46e8-9bbf-ceb2a82b53fe/CM_Logo.png Collective Minds - Binding social cognition to electrophysiology Humans love doing things together: we prepare and eat food together; we discuss what to do next together as a group; we play together in teams; we engage in religious and other rituals together. Collective gathering is central to our lives, allowing us to derive meaning and solace from each other. Our goals are: 1. To understand the neural processes and mechanisms that underpin collective traits through innovative and interdisciplinary research. 2. Create a space for research embracing the creative arts, computer science, engineering, and neuroscience/psychology. https://www.lovalab.net/news-archive-2025 daily 0.75 2025-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/27dbb8fc-308d-4198-a4e0-9a69b17ea2db/Dec2025.jpg News 2025 - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/c3ba3df1-43a0-40bb-89ca-50898b3cfcdf/Nov2025.jpg News 2025 - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/13426c87-ec9f-4c5f-99e9-80021e962152/Flux_TCBE_2025.jpg News 2025 - 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! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/6e392263-8c2d-42d8-8382-e2ebc94a96c0/EMBC_25.png News 2025 - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/9a340460-f78c-42e1-917f-6045a0950337/TCIN_Day_2025.png News 2025 - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/9aa35b41-a727-4c4a-ad36-19498a9861e0/GBHI2025_comp.png News 2025 - Global Brain Health Institute in Lima! 27/05/2024 This year’s GBHI annual meeting and AAIC Satellite Symposium took place in Lima, Peru. An amazing place for connections, learning, promotion of brain health and food. It was great to see the progress of GBHI projects in which we are involved. For an overview of those projects visit our GBHI Project page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/a34a4791-ac56-4b92-9e4b-f3476ea86f05/March_News.jpg News 2025 - A March full of action 31/03/2025 This March was full with action in the lab! Anneliese Walsh presented her PhD work at the early career researcher day of the Dementia Research Network Ireland. She won a best presentation award! Sara Carta left for a secondment to Denmark at Eriksholm Research Center to spend time with her industry supervisors Emina Alickovic and Johannes Zaar. She is on her way back to wrap-up her PhD! Together with the Reilly Lab, Neural Engineering at Trinity participated in the Trinity on The Move Day, sponsored by the School of Engineering. This event helped raising money for the Student Hardship Fund (you can donate too here). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62951433aec0e05be80ec902/d1d6866b-812a-49a6-85a1-2203a159eb7e/Jan_25.png News 2025 - 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.