Niels de Joode

Niels is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia University, actively engaged in research within the Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab (Multi FunkIm) in the Physics Department and the Sleep Cognition and Neuroimaging (SCN) Lab in the Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Applied Physiology. His projects at Concordia include assessing alterations in fNIRS signals during sleep transitions, leading the NICHY consortium—a global harmonized structural neuroimaging mega-analysis focusing on central disorders of hypersomnia (CDH), and conducting research on excessive daytime sleepiness using integrated EEG-fMRI techniques to study brain activation patterns during wakefulness, as well as neurometabolite alterations in CDH.
Niels completed his PhD at Amsterdam UMC, VU Medical Center in the Netherlands, within the Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences. His dissertation, titled "A View Through the Neural Panes: A Multimodal Journey into OCD" examined structural, neurometabolic, and functional alterations in individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder using advanced imaging technologies such as 1H-MRS, fMRI, and structural MRI on 3 Tesla, along with simultaneous fMRI/fMRS on 7 Tesla to assess glutamate and BOLD fluctuations in OCD patients. rior to this, Niels earned his Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences, specializing in Neurobiology, from the University of Amsterdam in March 2017, after obtaining his Bachelor of Science in Psychobiologie (Cognitive Neuroscience) at the same institution in January 2014.