John Van Opstal's Home Page

	e-Mail:
	<- Ready for the NYC marathon, 11/2005
	The day after Lake Placid marathon, 5/2009 (3rd place 50+) ->

(Farewell) Symposium!
This symposium celebrates my research career so far (1982 - 2024)
Date of the event:	January 23, 2025
Time:	14:00 - 17:00 (with drinks afterwards)
Location:	Huygens Building, Room HG00.307
	Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen (it's here)
Program and Registration: this link
More information:

New project NWO-TTW/OTP (2023 - 2028): "Otocontrol-2.0: The Next Step. Towards Optimal Fitting of Cochlear Implants"
	We have hired two excellent postdocs on our OTOCONTROL 2.0 project: drs. Elisabeth Noordanus and Ignácio Calderón de Palma. See our paper on the project's research objectives in Frontiers in Neuroscience: Neurotechnology
	(Zie verder ook de rubriek "in de Media" voor wat achtergrond over dit project, in NL)

My CV can be found here (12/2023)

My ORCID QR code:

My ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-5957:-5712

My Google-Scholar Citation Analysis is found here

Complete list of peer-reviewed publications and also via PubMed.

Two new papers stemming from my monkey research have just been published:

Superior Colliculus responses of single neurons in monkey during head-unrestrained eye-head gaze saccades in Communications Biology (and its Supplemental Material)
A thorough comparative study on spectral-temporal sound sensitivity of monkeys vs. humans, obtained from reaction times, which appeared in the Journal of Neurophysiology

Our two major ORIENT papers on our 6-DOF biomimetic eye have been accepted (March/April 2024) for

IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems and in
Frontiers in Robotics and AI (with Supplemental Materials )!

Number fun: I discovered some interesting aspects about the number 11, in particular on the divisibility of arbitrary numbers by 11, 111, 1111, 11111, etc.,
as well as some special properties of the 766,644 birthdays between 01-01-0001 and 31-12-2099 (which I dubbed "G8 numbers",
because of their special structure: dd-mm-yyyy with restrictions on dd and mm).
For example, did you know why the date 29-09-1999 is really unique? Or, similarly, what's so special about 25-06-1987? Read and weep!
See my WikipediA page (under construction) for some intriguing and nerdy number fun-fact trivia.

Here you may download some of our research papers

November 2017 I became a member of the Academia Europaea.
Photograph: "Building Bridges" event, Nov 2018, Barcelona

Master specialisation Neurophysics at DCN - FNWI:

Information on the Master specialisation Neurophysics

More detailed information on this specialisation, in this Brochure

ABOUT INTERNSHIPS IN MY GROUP:

Directory containing relevant background information for all experimental interns (bachelor and master internships).
(it also includes two good-practice examples of a bachelor and master thesis report.)
1. This file describes our strategy to bring every intern up to date. Contains some startup assignments that enable us to assess your stronger and weaker points.
2. Shortlist of papers that serve as an introductory read for all interns.
3. Directory that contains the introductory papers and chapters.
4. Document describing the do's and don'ts for keeping your personal Lab Journal (Version Feb 2, 2017).
Bachelor/Master internships for the new 2-axis vestibular chair! (projects for 3 students)
Theoretical modelling of pinna acoustics. (A collaboration with Antenna Company, High-Tech Campus, Eindhoven (2 master students math/physics))
More internship projects (for bachelor and master students)

My book appeared on April 23, 2016 at Elsevier's Academic Press (AP), ISBN 978 0-12-801529-2

The book has its own homepage.
Please, preview its contents here (14 chapters, 436 pages)

A Sneak Preview of the introductory chapter is available here.

Order the book at Elsevier's book store at 30% discount for only €63! Discount code: NEURO30

Further info at the book's flyer

Research: Auditory System, Multisensory Integration, and Gaze Control
	*My ERC advanced Grant "ORIENT" (2017-2021)* started January 1, 2017. For detailed information about this project, see the Orient Website
	14 PhD positions on our Marie-Curie FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IDP project HEALTHPAC (from Jan 1, 2014 to Dec 31, 2017).
	Lees hier over de achtergronden van mijn onderzoek
	We proudly present Report Year 2017 of our successful Donders Hearing and Implants collaboration (depts. Biophysics - Otolaryngology)!
	Check out our new two-axis Vestibular Stimulator on this Movie!
	Current and recently finished research projects in my lab (under construction)

Verder..... in de media
	Optreden in Doornroosje op 13 mei, 2023, met een uitleg over pitch perception (via YouTube te zien, op Radboud100 Sounds)
	Publicatie van Panasonic Industry met een uitleg over onze vestibulaire stoel en ons nieuwe auditory motion lab (Mei 2023, zie YouTube filmpje met Roy en Roel (Pan), en Gunter en Snandan (DCN))
	Uitzending van "TV Gelderland van 21 maart 2017", met tussen 6:07 tot 11:41min een leuke demo van onze twee-assige vestibulaire stoel (via YouTube te zien, of op mijn website Trots op Gelderland )
	Uitzending van "VPRO's Noorderlicht", met daarin (tegen het eind) ons onderzoek naar Auditieve Plasticiteit ('Uilenoren') (via Uitzending gemist nog steeds is te zien op Noorderlicht Nieuws 13-08-2009 )
	Op 15 april 2010 een mooi artikel in de NRC (download)
	Op 29 mei 2010 een heel aardig vervolgartikel in de NRC (Alledaagse Wetenschap) (download) met als resultaat van de oproep van Karel Knip het volgende mooie artikel in JARO (2013)! (Zie ook hieronder, de NRC van 16-2-2013 n.a.v. dit artikel!)
	Volkrant artikel (15-02-2011) over ons apenonderzoek. Dit item is later dunnetjes overgedaan in een 'discussiestuk' in de NRC Next van 28-04-2011
	Op 16 februari 2013 wederom in Alledaagse Wetenschap van de NRC door Karel Knip over ons JARO 2013 artikel (vervolg op '29 mei 2010). Leuk toch?
	Op 16 mei 2018 een radiobijdrage aan BNN (NOS op 3) over "Laurel" vs. "Yanny". Luister zelf hier
	Op 1 december 2018 leverde ik een bijdrage aan de Nationale Wetenschapsquiz (VPRO: vraag 7 over 'pitch' perceptie). Zie hier de VPRO Uitzending op NPO-2 van 29-12-2018 (49:36 - 55:28)
	(yours truly: front row, on the right)
	In September 2019 I was interviewed for the Instituto Superior Tecnico de Lisboa about our Orient project
	In October 2020 the Donders Institute made a nice promo video about our experimental setups, see our Vestibular-Auditory Labs
	On April 19, 2021 our eNeuro paper on moving sounds received world-wide attention!
	See a nice account in the American institute of Physics news service InsideScience
	Also the Australians were interested! Here's their quite amusing 6:30 am breakfast show on 3AW Radio Melbourne ("Golden Earring?? He must be eighty?!")
	The Dutch radio, of course, could not stay behind! Listen to the BNR NieuwsRadio interview with Marc
	And the Society for Neuroscience spread the word on Twitter.
	In November 2023 verscheen een artikel over ons OtoControl 2.0 project in ComputerIdee Implantaat of Maat
	In Februari 2024 verscheen een artikel over ons OtoControl 2.0 project op MT-Integraal Op weg naar een betere CI fitting (de officiële website van het artikel is hier)	\

YES to animal research!

NL: Waarom onze maatschappij het Proefdieronderzoek dient te steunen: Zie hier.

ENG: Why our Society should be Pro Animal Research: See here.

... en voor meer achtergrondinformatie met concrete vragen over dit onderwerp (in ontwikkeling), zie hier.