Sisi obtained her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2019 from East China Normal University where she worked with Yixuan Ku. She then worked as a postdoc from 2020 to 2022 at Beijing Normal University and Vanderbilt University with Gui Xue and Geoffrey F. Woodman. In the Proactive Brain Lab, Sisi uses electroencephalography (EEG) and eye-tracking to investigate how internal selective attention influences working-memory representations.

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Baiwei obtained his master degree in Cognitive Neuropsychology from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2020 and finished his PhD studies in the Proactive Brain Lab in March 2025 (pending formal evaluation and a public defense). Baiwei combines eye-tracking and electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate the links between microsaccades and EEG signatures of spatial attention inside working memory, and to track the transformations in working memory that serve anticipated task goals.

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Anna obtained her bachelor's degree in Psychobiology at the University of Amsterdam in 2021, after which she pursued a master's degree in Neuroscience at the Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences at the LMU in Munich. In the Proactive Brain Lab, Anna currently investigates the various factors that govern attentional selection and prioritisation within visual working memory, using a combination of eye-tracking and behavioural experiments.

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Babak obtained his master degree in Artificial Intelligence from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2021. In the Proactive Brain Lab, Babak develops and employs combined virtual-reality + eye-tracking experiments to study the principles of visual working memory and selective attention in immersive, dynamic, and 3-dimensional settings.

Ezra obtained a master degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the University of Amsterdam in 2020. In the Proactive Brain Lab, Ezra investigates the action-oriented nature of visual working memory, and its neural signatures, mainly using electroencephalography (EEG).

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Zach completed his master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science at the VU in 2021. In the Proactive Brain Lab, Zach will focus on using virtual reality and eye-tracking to explore the principles of visual working memory and selective attention in more realistic experimental environments.

Águeda is a PhD candidate at the University of Granada (Spain) who is visiting the Proactive Brain Lab to work on an EEG project on involuntary influences over the selection of visual-motor representations in working memory.

Marc is a PhD candidate at the University of Barcelona (Spain) who is currently visiting the Proactive Brain Lab to initiate a new project combining EEG and eye tracking. His research focuses on how we process simultaneous multisensory predictions, and how they are modulated by top-down processes.