prof. dr. Klaus Linkenkaer-Hansen

Klaus Linkenkaer-Hansen is Professor of Critical Brain Dynamics in Health and Disease at the Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR), VU Amsterdam. He received his MSc in Physics-biophysics from the Niels Bohr Institute (Copenhagen University, Denmark) in 1998. He received his PhD from Helsinki University of Technology (Finland) in 2002. Following post-doctoral fellowships at the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research and CNCR, he became team leader of the Neuronal Oscillations and Cognition group in 2008. His research has been funded by 45+ awards from a number of European funding agencies, including the VENI scholarship from the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (NWO/ZonMW), the Physical Sciences (NWO/EW), the Social Sciences (NWO/MaGW), the Technology Foundation (NWO/STW), and the Applied and Engineering Sciences (NWO/AES) of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). His research is focused on the complex dynamics of neuronal oscillations and its implications for cognition in health and disease. Theories and methods from the physics of self-organization and complexity have guided his multi-disciplinary research since 1998. His research has shown that the complex temporal structure of ongoing oscillations is rich in information about the functional state and structure of the underlying neuronal networks. Importantly, his team has developed a patented method to measure excitation/inhibition balance in neuronal networks using EEG recordings and is currently implementing this technique for patient stratification and treatment monitoring.