Over the last years, I have been more and more involved in public engagement activities. I am convinced that public engagement in neuroscience and neurotechnology should provide a holistic information landscape that allows the public to also question, criticise and debate latest headlines in the news.
Please feel free to get in touch if you are looking for a neuroscientist to take part in an outreach event involving neurotechnologies, such as EEG-based brain-computer interfaces or non-invasive brain stimulation techniques.
Imperial Fringe's 'Intelligence Redesigned' was a free evening of discovery about Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the general public with hands-on demos, crafty workshops, interactive experiments and talks for all ages. Visitors could test their mental skills on an iPad with "Cognitron" – the world's first AI web server to test human intelligence developed by our team (PI: Dr. Adam Hampshire).
Future Forum Talks is for teens (13-16 years) to ask questions and explore ideas. I gave an interactive presentation with the title 'Zapping your teacher's brain to explore the potential of neurotechnology' on how the brain works and how neurotechnology can help to treat the 'diseased' or injured brain.
Yearly event to engage patients suffering from traumatic brain injury and their families in our research. The event featured tours through our labs. I demonstrated EEG and brain stimulation as potential rehabilitation methods and designed questionnaires to measure the patient everyday technology usage and their readiness to learn and use new technology.
This scheme offers hand-on enrichment activities in STEM subjects. I performed a life demonstration of my real-time functional brain imaging setup for a group of students (15-18 years). The students were able to track, in real-time, how brain activity changes in the motor cortex due to executed and even imagined finger movements. By this we could highlight the potential for using real-time neuroimaging for decoding cognitive states in humans.
The Summer Science Exhibition is an annual display of the most exciting cutting-edge science and technology research. I was part of the organization team and in charge of the production of the video to explain our research addressing a non-expert audience. During the one-week exhibition we interactively engaged the interested public in our research.