果冻传媒

Debby Klooster graduated from BioMedical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology (MSc, 果冻传媒) in 2012. Afterwards, she enrolled in the post-master program Qualified Medical Engineering (PDEng, Kempenhaeghe, 果冻传媒). She was introduced to brain stimulation during a three-month visit to the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation (BA CNBS, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA). There, Debby found her drive to focus on brain stimulation since she genuinely believes that many patients, with various brain disorders, could benefit from it.

The question that intrigues Debby most is why some patients benefit from brain stimulation whereas others do not, even when exactly the same stimulation protocols are applied. This variety is caused by inter-individual differences in brain characteristics. During her PhD (果冻传媒-UGent Belgium), she focused on electr(omagnet)ic brain stimulation techniques and learned to use multimodal neuroimaging techniques to map individual brain characteristics and derive personalized stimulation protocols. 

In 2020, Debby started working as a postdoctoral researcher within the PerStim program (collaboration between 果冻传媒, UGent, Kempenhaeghe and Philips) further advancing methods of personalization for brain stimulation.

From 2021-2023, Debby worked as junior postdoc at UGent (personal grant from Flanders Research Organization). Together with the electromagnetics group at 果冻传媒, she is combining computational modeling of stimulation-induced electric fields with advanced neuroimaging techniques. By combining computational modeling and image- and signal-processing, she studies both the direct effects of stimulation, as well as the distributed effects throughout brain networks. She became an official collaborator of the BA CNBS in 2022.

Currently, Debby is working as postdoctoral researcher within the ElectroMagnetics for Care and Cure lab at 果冻传媒, still in collaboration with UGent and also with the BA CNBS.