Dr. Maarten Ottenhoff is a Postdoctoral Scholar with Prof. Dr. Leigh Hochberg at BrainGate, Brown University since July 2024. He works on neural control of soft-robotics to regenerate movement of the paralyzed arm. Dr. Ottenhoff integrates scientific insights and techniques from his multidisciplinary background, including machine learning, human movement sciences and neurotechnology. It is Dr. Ottenhoff’s mission to provide new and naturalistic means of movement for those who lost the ability to move, by building the next generation of motor brain-computer interfaces.

Dr. Ottenhoff received his PhD from Maastricht University in 2024 in Neurotechnology. During his doctoral studies, he combined his bachelor in Human Movement Sciences and Master in Artificial Intelligence to explore brain-wide motor related neural activity by decoding movement from neural data recorded with stereotactic encephalographic electrodes. His thesis provides evidence that nearly the whole brain is involved during online goal-directed movements, and that pervasive global motor dynamic exists that are common across tasks and participants.