Dr Joram J. van Rheede

BA Liberal Arts and Sciences (Utrecht University); MSc in Neuroscience (University of Oxford); DPhil in Neuroscience (University of Oxford).

I completed my BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences at University College Utrecht (2004–07). I worked as a Junior Research Consultant, Eye Tracking at Intomart GfK, Hilversum (2008) before completing a Wellcome Trust MSc and DPhil Studentship in Neuroscience at the University of Oxford (2008–13). Since then, I have been a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, working on research projects ranging from brain development to wearable assistive technology. In my current position as Senior Postdoctoral Neuroengineer, I am helping to develop new medical neurotechnology devices for brain disorders.

I currently provide tutorials for Introduction to Psychology and Psychology for Medicine, and have previously taught Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience, Perception, and Social Psychology.

I work on the development of new medical devices (brain stimulation implants) for neurological disorders. Specifically, I am interested in how we can make such devices adapt to ongoing brain activity, and how brain stimulation therapies interact with sleep and circadian rhythms of patients.

Van Rheede JJ, Alagapan S, Denison TJ, Riva-Posse P, Rozell CJ, Mayberg HS et al. Cortical signatures of sleep are altered following effective deep brain stimulation for depression. Transl Psychiatry 2024; 14: 103.

Wendt K, Sorkhabi MM, O’Shea J, Denison T, Rheede J van. Influence of time of day on resting motor threshold in clinical TMS practice. Clin Neurophysiol 2023. doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2023.08.017.

Van Rheede JJ, Feldmann LK, Busch JL, Fleming JE, Mathiopoulou V, Denison T et al. Diurnal modulation of subthalamic beta oscillatory power in Parkinson’s disease patients during deep brain stimulation. Npj Park Dis 2022; 8: 88.

Massiceti D, Hicks SL, Rheede JJ van. Stereosonic vision: Exploring visual-to-auditory sensory substitution mappings in an immersive virtual reality navigation paradigm. PloS one 2017; 13: e0199389.

Van Rheede JJ, Richards BA, Akerman CJ. Sensory-Evoked Spiking Behavior Emerges via an Experience-Dependent Plasticity Mechanism. Neuron 2015; 87: 1050–1062.

Van Rheede JJ, Kennard C, Hicks SL. Simulating prosthetic vision: Optimizing the information content of a limited visual display. J Vis 2010; 10. doi:10.1167/10.14.32.

I enjoy music production (metal and electronic), calisthenics, photography and graphic design.