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The Essex BCI-NE Lab invites you to join our next monthly webinar:</div>
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<b>The Graz BCI for communication and control:</b></div>
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<b>Milestone projects, boundaries in BCIs and chances</b></div>
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<b>Prof. Dr. Gernot Müller-Putz</b></div>
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Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interfaces, Institute of Neural Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Austria </div>
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The webinar will take place over Zoom on Wednesday, 13th May 2026, at 2 PM UK time </div>
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<b>Abstract:</b> This talk presents the state of the art in Graz BCI research, highlighting results from past and ongoing projects focused on control and communication. Prof. Dr. Gernot Müller-Putz will discuss recent advances in BCIs for people with spinal
cord injury and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, illustrating both clinical and translational progress. The talk will conclude with an outlook on future directions, including anticipated developments, current limitations, and emerging opportunities.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Speaker Biography</b>: </span><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prof. Dr. Gernot Müller-Putz is head of the Institute of Neural Engineering and its associated Laboratory of Brain-Computer
Interfaces. He received his MSc in electrical and biomedical engineering in 2000, his PhD in electrical engineering in 2004 and his habilitation and “venia docendi” in medical informatics from Graz University of Technology in 2008. Since 2014 he is full professor
for semantic data analysis. He has gained extensive experience in the field of biosignal analysis, brain-computer interface research, EEG-based neuroprosthesis control, communication with BCI in patients with disorders of consciousness, hybrid BCI systems,
the human somatosensory system, and BCIs in assistive technology over the past 27 years. He has also managed several national projects (State of Styria) and international projects (Wings for Life, EU Projects) and recently coordinated the EU Horizon 2020 project
MoreGrasp. Furthermore, he organized and hosted seven international Brain-Computer Interface Conferences over the last 25 years in Graz, the next one (10th GBCIC) in Sept. 2026. In 2014/15 he was Guest editor in chief of a special issue of the Proceedings
if the IEEE “The Plurality of Human Brain-Computer Interfacing”. Since August 2019 he is Specialty Editor in Chief of Frontiers in Human Neuroscience: Brain-Computer Interfaces. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering. He has authored
more than 215+ peer reviewed publications and more than 210+ contributions to conferences which were cited more than 30900 times (h-index 83). In 2015, he was awarded with an ERC Consolidator Grant “Feel your Reach” from the European Research Council. In May
2017 he received the Ludwig-Guttman Award from the German Medical Spinal Cord Injury Association (DMGP). From 2018 he part of the Board of Directors of the International Brain-Computer Interface Society and served as Treasurer until June 2025. In May 2019
he received a research award from the State of Styria "Digitalisierung in der Wissenschaft". He is founding member and scientific Co-Director of the NeuroIS Society. Since 2024 he is board member of the Austrian Society for Biomedical Engineering. With October
2023 he was elected to be the Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science & Biomedical Engineering. In autumn 2025 he was elected Fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering.</span></div>
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The <b>Essex BCI-NE Lab webinars series</b> takes place monthly (usually, on the second or third Wednesday of the month) over Zoom and is open to all. Speakers are invited to talk about their research for 45-50 minutes followed by Q&A.</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Where speakers allow it, we record the talks and make them available to everyone on our YouTube channel. You can watch previous talks at:
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If you don’t want to miss our next webinars, please email serafeim.perdikis@essex.ac.uk to ask to be added to our webinars mailing list.</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dr Serafeim Perdikis, Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer)</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br>
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