Serge Rombouts
Professor
Methods of Cognitive Neuroimaging
Leiden University
Netherlands
Biography
Serge Rombouts is currently working as the professor of Methods of Cognitive Neuroimaging in the department of Medicine, Leiden University, Netherlands. Expertise: Neuroimaging, functional and structural brain connectivity, pharmacologic FMRI. Aging and dementia. Academic Career Professor of Methods of Cognitive Neuroimaging, Leiden University and Leiden University Medical Center (2009 - present). Associate Professor, Dept. Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center and Dept. Psychology, Leiden University (2005 - 2009). Director of the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC) (2006 - present). Assistant Professor, Dept. Physics & Medical Technology and Alzheimer Center, VU University Medical Center Amsterdam (2002 - 2006). Post-doc researcher, Dept. Physics & Medical technology and Alzheimer Center, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam (1998 - 2002). PhD, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Thesis: Functional MRI. Studies of the primary visual cortex and the memory system with reference to Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis. Researcher Dept. Clinical Neurophysiology, Leyenburg Hospital, The Hague. Topic: Nonlinear Analysis of EEG data (1994). MA. Physics, Utrecht University (1993). Academic Awards Dutch Society for Scientific Research (NWO): VICI. Brain networks and the initial stages of dementia (Rombouts) (2012) NWO-NIHC: Functional MRI as a biomarker in the presymptomatic and early stage of FTD. (Van Swieten (main), Rombouts (co)). (2011) NWO-NIHC: Novel functional markers of dementia using pharmacological resting state FMRI (Rombouts (main), Van Gerven (co), Van Swieten (co). (2011) NWO-NIHC Brain and Cognition: Functional markers for cognitive impairment (consortium grant, coordinator Rombouts). (2010) CJ Kok prize LUMC. (2009) Dutch Society for Scientific Research (NWO): VIDI. Resting state pharmacologic FMRI (Rombouts). (2007) Hersenstichting Nederland: FMRI and cortisol (Rombouts). (2003). Dutch Society for Scientific Research (NWO): VENI. Resting state FMRI in dementia (Rombouts). (2003). Hersenstichting Nederland Fellowship (Rombouts). (2000). Hersenstichting Nederland (Scheltens and Rombouts). (1999).
Research Interest
Methods of Cognitive Neuroimaging
Publications
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Fraiman D., Miranda M.F., Erthal F., Buur P.F., Elschot M., Souza L., Rombouts S.A., Schimmelpenninck C.A., Norris D.G., Malessy M.J., Galves A. & Vargas C.D. (2016), Reduced functional connectivity within the primary motor cortex of patients with brachial plexus injury, NeuroImage: Clinical 12: 2772-84.
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Klaassens B.L., Rombouts S.A.R.B., Winkler A.M., Van Gorsel H.C., Van der Grond J. & Van Gerven J.M.A. (2017), Time related effects on functional brain connectivity after serotonergic and cholinergic neuromodulation, Human Brain Mapping 38(1): 308-325.
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Schouten T.M., Koini M., De Vos F., Seiler S., De Rooij M.J., Lechner A., Schmidt R., Van den Heuvel M., Van der Grond J. & Rombouts S.A.R.B. (2017), Individual Classification of Alzheimer's Disease with Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging, NeuroImage 152: 476-481.
