Reinhold Scherer

Reinhold Scherer

I am a Professor in Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) and Neural Engineering (NE) in CSEE and co-director of the Essex BCI-NE laboratory. I obtained a Dr.techn (PhD) degree in computer science from Graz University of Technology, Austria in 2008. My thesis was about enhancement of usability and practicality of electroencephalogram (EEG)-based BCIs. From 2008 to 2010 I was postdoctoral researcher at the Department for Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. In 2010 I joined the Graz University of Technology again as Assistant Professor. I received my habilitation (venia docendi) and became Assistant Professor in 2016. From 2011 to 2018 I was deputy director of the Institute of Neural Engineering, home of the Graz-BCI laboratory. I joined the University of Essex in 2019. My primary research interests are in the areas of online brain-machine co-adaptation, statistical and adaptive signal processing, mobile brain and body imaging, and rehabilitation. Active research topics focus on gaining deeper insights into brain dynamics and mechanisms underlying motor and cognitive learning, with the goal of improving the interpretability of brain rhythms and thereby optimizing the performance of spontaneous EEG-based BCI interaction and rehabilitation protocols.