Cohort 
2021

Rafal Nowak, PhD

Neuroscientist

We need a broader vision for translational neuroscience research, together with a multidisciplinary approach and specific transversal skills to reduce the scale and impact of dementia.

Current Work

Neuroscientist, with a research on using neuroimaging techniques to better understand brain function and dysfunction in children and adults, including the use of MEG, resting-state functional connectivity MRI, EEG and fNIRS.

Personal Hero

James Clerk Maxwell

Words of Strength

One step at a time, but always forward

Vision

Broader vision for translational neuroscience research, together with a multidisciplinary approach and specific transversal skills are needed to reduce the scale and impact of dementia.

Strategy

Rafal is using multi-modal neuroimaging techniques to better understand how the brain dysfunction contributes to clinical symptoms in dementia and which neuronal oscillations should be approached with non-invasive brain stimulation tools.

Impact

As an Atlantic Fellow, Rafal aims to develop new neuroimaging techniques to identify the network implicated in Alzheimer's Disease as an optimal target for non invasive brain stimulation.

Motivation

Rafal believes there is tremendous therapeutic potential in the combined use of advanced imaging to detect dysfunctional network activity in the pathological aging and noninvasive brain stimulation to modulate this networks.