Jeroen Van Schependom graduated summa cum laude as a Master of Science in Engineering Physics (UGent) in 2011 and defended his PhD thesis on cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis in 2015 at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences (VUB) and the Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l’Education (UMons). Between 2015 and 2019 he was an FWO postdoctoral fellow in charge of collecting and processing magnetoencephalographic and diffusion-weighted imaging data from multiple sclerosis patients and was a visiting researcher at the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity and the Computational Neuroscience Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. In 2016, Prof Van Schependom was promoted to part-time professor at VUB and since 2019 he was promoted into the role of first interdisciplinary senior research fellow at VUB. His appointment is evenly divided between the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy (www.aims.research.vub.be) and the Faculty of Engineering (ETRO, www.etrovub.be). His research focuses on furthering our understanding of how neurological diseases (mainly MS and Alzheimer’s disease) affect brain structure and functioning and on the development of neuromodulation as a potential treatment.
