Rafal Nowak, PhD

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rafal.nowak@gbhi.org

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Interests

Sleep

Psychiatry

Movement Disorders

Neurology & Neuroscience

Frontotemporal Dementia

Brain Health & Dementia Prevention

Biomarkers

Alzheimer's Disease

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.

Education & Experience

Rafal received his master's degree in Medical Physics from University of Poznan, Poland and PhD degree in Neuroscience from the University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland, on the analysis of the brain bioelectrical activity in patients with epilepsy. After completing his PhD, he joined the Department of Psychiatry and Psychobiology at the University of Barcelona. He completed Master of Advanced Studies in Neuroscience from the University of Barcelona and Program for Management Development (PDG) at ESADE Business School (Barcelona). His scientific interest in applied science led to his association with Magnetoencephalography Laboratory at Teknon Hospital, Barcelona and Neuroelectrics' research group.

Awards & Honors

Rafal's academic and research achievements are demonstrated by numerous scholarships and awards and include graduate scholarship, PhD Scholarship, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, various traveling Scholars and Young Investigator Award from the Biomag Society.