Prof. MD. Guy Nagels

As associate chair of neurology at the Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (UZ Brussel), and as former head of neurology at the National Multiple Sclerosis Centre Melsbroek in Belgium, my clinical focus is diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation in multiple sclerosis (MS). Cognition is an important though often underrated aspect of MS, and this has caused my research focus to grow into the modeling of cognition in MS and other neurodegenerative disorders. The combination of my clinical neuroscience background, together with my formal training as a computer science engineer, sets the stage for the development of more informed and more performant models of cognition. To this end, I have gathered a multidisciplinary team consisting of engineers, psychologists, and fellow neurologists. Together we form the Artificial Intelligence Supported Modelling in Clinical Sciences (AIMS) group, part of the centre for neurosciences (C4N) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), where I am full professor of digital medicine. Our AIMS group works in close collaboration with the Oxford centre for Human Brain Activity (Prof. Mark Woolrich), where I hold academic visitor status since 2012, with the MRI department at the UZ Brussel, with the statistics and AI department of the university of Lausanne (Prof. Oliver Chen), with international MS centers and with industrial partners such as the spinoff neuroimaging company icometrix nv. Since October 2019, I hold a senior clinical research fellowship with the FWO, allowing me to combine half time clinical work in neurology with half time research on neurophysiological and machine learning aspects of cognition.