How I lost my blogging virginity?

Posted on 10/02/2011 by | 2 comments

It has been more than eight months since I have graduated from TU Delft. Since then I have been working on pursuing my intentions to do a PhD. As many others, I have a great idea for my PhD project with huge scientific and societal relevance, but no funding (yet). For more information about my intended project, please visit my website. 

Currently, I am waiting for the first results of personal grant proposal submitted to the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Mosaic programme. Mosaic aims to attract more excellent ethnic minority graduates into academic research. And of course, I am one of them 🙂 
Obviously, I will share the results from NWO with you, as soon as I get them. 
More information about NWO Mosaic can be found here.

As a first time blogger I realize that this post has a twofold meaning. Firstly, it is a great opportunity to say a few words about me and, secondly, like I just realized, by placing this post I will lose my blogging virginity. The things we do for science… 

Senad 

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Li-Ion batteries on silicon come to the rescue

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Yesterday, Erik Kelder (NSM group, TU Delft) explained us how thin-film microbatteries can be made in silicon. These batteries seem to be naturally suited for the next generation of implantable neurostimulators. Read more about the newly initiated FP7 project at: http://www.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=39d5ebc3-7ec3-4b26-a298-058bb5f8a24c&lang=en

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How to detect the right information from the brain to see a seizure coming?

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It looks like the best way to detect the onset of an epileptic insult is by doing a wavelet transform on the acquired ECoG. However, which morphological features to look at is far from trivial. For the first generation of closed-loop neurostimulators it is therefore probably best to acquire the complete ECoG signal at full resolution and do the morphological analysis in the digital domain entirely. In a later phase, the (analog) frontend (sense amplifier) can be made more specific, thereby releasing the burden from the analog-to-digital converter and the signal processing in the digital domain.

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SINS meeting today!

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Today, we will have a meeting of the SINS program and its international consortium. In this meeting we discuss new directions in neurostimulation and -modulation, bladder stimulation for urge incontinence, new technologies for Li-Ion battery foils, implantable electrodes in silicon, neuroscience on mice, closed-loop neurostimulator operation and tinnitus. I look forward to an exciting day…

Wouter

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The Biomedical Electronics Group

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The Biomedical Electronics Group

The Biomedical Electronics group anno 2010. From left to right:

Rachit Mohan, Gaurav Mishra, Wu Chi Wing, Yongjia Li, Wouter Serdijn, Duan Zhao, Robin van Eijk, Chutham Sawigun, Mark Stoopman, Hossein Tajeddin, Vincent Bleeker, Wannaya Ngamkham, Menno Vastenholt, Senad Hiseni, Cees-Jeroen Bes.

Not on the photo: Andre Mansano, Sumit Bagga, Marijn van Dongen, Hamed Aminzadeh, Marcel van der Horst, Yixiong Hu

Picture taken by Unknown, 2010

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Moving diagnostic, monitoring and therapeutic wireless medical devices into the homes and into the body

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== Invited presentation by Wouter Serdijn at ISMICT 2011 on “Moving diagnostic, monitoring and therapeutic wireless medical devices into the homes and into the body”, Montreux, Switzerland, March 30.

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First blog posted!

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Hello World, here I am. This is actually the first post on the weblog of Wouter A. Serdijn and the Biomedical Electronics Group. Stay tuned. More information will follow shortly.

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