Daniela Balslev

Biography

He has graduated as an MD/PhD from the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Graduate School of Neuroscience at the University of Copenhagen. His PhD thesis “Proprioception – an obstacle for motor control in conditions with a visuoproprioceptive conflict” addressed a topic at the interface between multisensory integration and motor control. The doctoral work triggered his interest in brain-behavior relationships and prompted a career change towards cognitive neuroscience. He had the great opportunity to receive funding from the Danish Medical Research Councils and a Marie Curie fellowship for career development from the EU to focus on research. These fellowships have allowed him not only to answer questions about the neural basis of multisensory integration, body ownership or spatial attention, but have also given him the chance to learn advanced methods in cognitive neuroscience with key experts at the University of Birmingham (Prof Chris Miall), University of Copenhagen (Dr Ian Law, Prof Olaf B. Paulson, Prof Hartwig Siebner) and University of Tuebingen (Prof Hans-Otto Karnath).

Research Interest

cognitive neuroscience using transcranial magnetic stimulation and functional magnetic resonance imaging in healthy humans as well as behavioral testing of neurological patients with a brain lesion. My research aims to ground spatial cognition into basic sensorimotor mechanisms.