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SfNIRS Newsletter March 2023
Welcome to the March 2023 issue of the SfNIRS newsletter, covering the period from May 2022 (yes, May 2022!) to February 2023. It has been almost a year! During this time, the pandemic has ended for the majority of us and most are back on campus, we have our most successful conference to date in […]
fNIRS-UK 2023 coming at University of Essex
By Javier Andreu-Pérez We are delighted to inform you about the upcoming two-day event symposium, FNIRS UK, which is being organized by the UK sfNIRS community. The event is aimed at providing a platform for colleagues in the United Kingdom and the European Union to come together and exchange valuable insights and experiences in the […]
Wrap-up of fNIRS 2022, Boston: Celebrating the return of the live conference
By Ippeita Dan, Chuo University, Japan After two rounds of extensions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, fNIRS2022, the Biennial Meeting of the Society for functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (SfNIRS) was FINALLY held in Boston from October 9-12, 2022. It was preceded by five-day virtual sessions starting on October 3, and two-day educational courses October 8-9. Although […]
fNIRS in animal research
By Rens Burghardt As our community has grown considerably throughout the years, it’s worth taking a step back to explore the many different, and perhaps surprising, ways that research is conducted in our field. Here, we briefly explore the different uses of fNIRS in animal research and opportunities for using fNIRS in animal monitoring in […]
BIDS-fNIRS (bfnirs) in the Cloud
By Meryem Yücel and David Boas Now that fNIRS has established the SNIRF file format for fNIRS data and this has been incorporated into the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) standard for the organization of neuroimaging datasets, we the fNIRS community should endeavor to broadly adopt this data set organization specification. The full specification is […]
Introducing our “fNIRS in the Lab” photo series!
By Louisa Gossé We are looking for contributions to our “fNIRS in the Lab” photo series! Do you have a fun(ny) picture of your fNIRS set-up? Or want to share what your fNIRS testing looks like with fNIRS community? Send us your photo along with a small description of what it is you are researching […]
SfNIRS Newsletter May 2022
Welcome to the May 2022 issue of the SfNIRS newsletter, covering the period from January 2022 through April 2022. The Society’s biennial meeting, fNIRS 2022, is fast approaching, the program is ready, registration for courses and abstract submissions are open, and preparations are going smoothly. Much is going on in the fNIRS world: an EDI […]
fNIRS 2022 Updates
By Maria Angela Franceschini and Ippeita Dan We are excited about the return of our meeting face-to-face! fNIRS 2022 will be held in Boston between October 9th and 12th. As the date for our biennial meeting approaches, the last few months have been hectic. If you have been following us on social media, you surely […]
Nominations for the first community award are now open
By Martin Wolf and Joe Culver With this award, the Society for functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy would like to honor a member for its outstanding service to our community. Such service could be in various fields of our community, including: Educating community members Standardization of equipment, software, or data Organizing events Advancing the Society in […]
fNIRS 2022 DEI Travel Award
The fNIRS2022 DEI Travel Award aims to support and recognize researchers from racial, ethnic, and disability groups that have been historically under-represented in scientific work related to fNIRS in their home country or internationally This award also aims to support research with significant impacts on culturally diverse and underrepresented minority populations.