Our team investigates how cognition, especially language, emerges from distributed brain networks, how these networks vary across individuals, and how they reorganise following neurological conditions such as stroke, tumour, and neurodegeneration. Our research bridges basic neuroscience, clinical translation, and methodological innovation.
Our work combines post mortem anatomy, multimodal neuroimaging, white matter tractography, computational modelling, behavioural assessment, and clinical neuroscience. We are particularly interested in individual variability and how structural connectivity shapes language recovery trajectories.
The lab is based at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (Radboud University) and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
Working with us
We value scientific rigour, transparent workflows, and collaborative problem-solving.
Our lab handbook outlines expectations regarding supervision, authorship, data governance, inclusion, open science, and sustainability.
If you are interested in joining the lab, collaborating, or developing a project, please get in touch with a short statement of interests and a CV.
Good science often begins with a good conversation.
Meet The Team
Nilüfer Babatan
Erasmus +
Speech disorders in PD
Ansley Martin
Ceny Walker Fellow
Neurovariability
Artemy Razumnov
PhD
ERC Emergence
Fernando Fernández de Cuevas
Master's Intern & Student Assistant
Developmental Neuroimaging
Lilit Dulyan
PhD Candidate
Brain variability
Edoardo Gornetti
PhD Candidate
Dynamic functional white matter anatomy
Müge Özker Sertel
Postdoc
Parkinson disease and speech deficits
Athos
Lab happiness officer
Specialist in affective regulation and wellbeing
Irene Bellin
PhD Candidate
rsfMRI and individual differences in language processing
Lena Tulner
Intern
Reclassification of the aphasias
Nicolas Karpi
Student Assistant
Prosody morphospace
Madalina-Emilia Andrei
Student Assistant
Prosody morphospace
Our Funders
Our research is supported by competitive national and international funding bodies.
