Prof. Dr. Rainer Goebel

Rainer Goebel is a German psychologist and neuroscientist, whose aim is a deeper understanding of how neuronal activity distributed in the brain leads to unified conscious precepts and mental images in our mind. He also develops innovative fMRI neurofeedback brain-computer interfaces where participants learn to regulate their own brain activity in emotion-specific brain regions with beneficial results for several psychiatric and neurological disorders To identify the basis of mental processes, he primarily uses high‐resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and brain-inspired neural network modelling. Rainer Goebel is Full Professor for Cognitive Neuroscience at Maastricht University where he trained and supervised more than 80 PhD students. He is the initiator of the Maastricht ultra-high field MRI center, and he is Co-PI of the 14 Tesla 'DYNAMIC' grant and member of its scientific board. He received funding for basic and translational neuroscience research including twice the prestigious Advanced Investigators Grant from the European Research Council (2011 – 2016 and 2024 - 2029) and several grants from the Human Brain Project (2014-2023). Since 2014 Rainer Goebel is member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and since 2017 member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina). He is also founder and CEO of the company Brain Innovation B.V. (see brainvoyager.com). developing free and commercial software for neuroimaging data analysis, education, and clinical translation.