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.
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.
Arman Sharifi Kolarijani
Chief AI scientist
Arman has a background in control theory and AI. He holds a PhD from TU Delft and was formerly at EPFL and TU Delft as postdoc researcher.
Sabina Schreurs
patient-centred design & community engagement
Sabina has drug-resistant epilepsy and combines her background in design to provide patient-centric solutions.
Raghu Soman
System engineering 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.
Mahdi Saleh
embedded systems engineer
Mahdi is an IEEE Senior Member, specializing in instrumentation and measurement systems, sensor technologies, embedded electronics, and edge AI for healthcare and environmental monitoring applications.
Jennifer Pearson
Junior AI scientist
Jennifer has a background in Mathematics from the University of Groningen.
Robbie Vreugdenhil
AI 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.
Vladan Radanović
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.
Ruud Peters
IP Advisor
Ruud is a senior IP commercialization expert and the former Chief IP officer at Philips.
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.
Our Quality Policy
"We are a deep tech company tackling some of the most pressing problems in the frontiers of predictive AI and EEG hardware design to alleviate the growing global burden of neurological and psychiatric disorders. Our first use case in epilepsy."
