About Us

Core Team

Alpha Brain Technologies was founded in the Netherlands
by a group of individuals passionate about brain health.

Nitzan Merguei

co-CEO & Business lead

Nitzan is a health entrepreneur with an MSc in behavioural sciences from the School of Business and Economics in Maastricht and a background in consultancy.

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Mehrdad Seirafi

co-CEO & Tech lead

Mehrdad is a neurotech entrepreneur with a PhD in Neuroscience from Maastricht University and a physicist by training.

Abigail Jaitman

Head of Regulatory

Abigail is a senior regulatory expert with past experience in Qserve Group and Philips. She holds a PhD from Warwick University in bioengineering and biomedical engineering.

Sabina Schreurs

patient-centred design & community engagement

Sabina has drug-resistant epilepsy and combines her background in design to provide patient-centric solutions.

"We are healthcare entrepreneurs, neuroscientists, data, scientists, engineers, and designers, working together to alleviate the growing global burden of neurological and psychiatric disorders."

Raghu Soman

Technical advisor

Raghu is a system engineer and has over 12 years of cross-functional experience in biomedical and consumer electronics, working for big multinationals such as Philips.

Robbie Vreugdenhil

Data scientist

Robbie did his Master thesis for Alpha Brain Technologies, and graduated with an MSc in systems and control from TU Delft. Previously he worked as a data analyst for E&Y.

Tessa Souhoka

Medical product designer

Tessa is a specialist in medical product design (MSc) and product communication. She has been active in the epilepsy and EEG field for over 6 years.

Vladan Radanovic

Quality management systems

Vladan has over 15 years of experience in quality management system (QMS). His latest roles in medical device QMS were at Boston Scientific and Philips.

Extended Team

Alex Sack

Scientific advisor

Alex is a renowned expert in non-invasive brain stimulation and clinical brain research. He is a Professor at Maastricht University. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Young Academy of Europe. Alex is passionate about solving the unpredictability for personal reasons.

Johnathan Hughes

Regulatory strategist

Jonathan holds a PhD from the University of Newcastle and has more than 30 years of experience with medical device regulations for CE, FDA and CFDA.

Michel van Putten

clinical advisor

Michel is a professor of clinical neurophysiology at the University of Twente. He studied medicine in Leiden and later obtained his PhD specialization in neurology. In addition to his appointment at UT, he works as a neurologist at the Medisch Spectrum Twente.

Sanne ten Oever

AI implementation advisor

Sanne is an assistant professor at the cognitive neuroscience department, Maastricht University. She is recipient of an ERC starter grant supporting her research on the use of computational models and closed-loop systems to investigate brain dynamics. Sanne is an expert of using AI in brain signal analysis and oversees the data analysis and algorithms at our company. She assures the neuroscientific relevance of the models developed.

Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

Theoretical AI advisor

Peyman is an associate professor of system control at TU Delft. He holds a PhD in from ETH Zurich and previously worked as a researcher at MIT and ETH. He is an expert in developing new AI techniques in terms of efficacy and response latency for tailor-made applications.

Scientists and Clinicians we work with come from:

We are the SCIENTIFIC COORDINATOR of Project RELIEVE

Goal

development & testing of 3 generations of our non-invasive anomaly prediction and closed-loop intervention device for neurological disorders

First Use case

seizure prediction & closed-loop prevention

Consortium

3 development partners
6 clinical partners

EIC Pathfinder

Supported by an EIC Pathfinder Open grant that supports highly innovative projects with high potential of breakthrough

Sponsors

European Commission (EU)
UKRI (United Kingdom)
SERI (Switzerland)

Project RELIEVE is our collaborative project with some of the best development and clinical centres in Europe.