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Virtual Journal Club
Join us Thursday, Nov 13 @ 10 AM EST for an exciting session led by Ahmed E. (University of Tübingen / ETH Zürich)! Researchers, scientists, and curious folks are all welcome to join. Paper: “NINFA: Non-commercial Interface for Neuro-Feedback Acquisitions”, Neurophotonics (2025)(https://lnkd.in/gBCjFcy3) Ahmed studied Software Engineering in Berlin and is now completing his master’s in […]
Message from the SfNIRS President
New pressures on biomedical research funding Dear SfNIRS members, Recent actions by the new U.S. government executive branch have put pressure on biomedical research funding. In reaching out to you on this topic, we are mindful that SfNIRS is an international society, and the US is but one of many member countries. However, the changes […]
SfNIRS Newsletter March 2025
Welcome to the new (and long overdue) issue of the SfNIRS newsletter! As they say, please pardon our dust, as we are renovating most platforms of communication for the many exciting activities of our Society. This edition of the newsletter covers most of the recent and near future happenings, so please follow us here and on […]
SfNIRS Board Elections 2024
Nominations requested for the President-elect and the Board of Directors of the Society for functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (SfNIRS) Continue reading
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 […]
fNIRS 2024 at the University of Birmingham – Initial preparations
By Erin Buckley, Hamid Dehghani, Javier Andreu-Pérez and Felipe Orihuela-Espina Dear SfNIRSers, As you know by now, our next biennial meeting will be held at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom) on September 11th to 15th, 2024, and we are already planning for it. Samuel A. Montero-Hernandez has been appointed virtual chair.We have assembled the […]