Speakers - 2026

Biography

Ahmet Omurtag is a Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering at Nottingham Trent University. He holds a PhD from Columbia University and has worked at the interface of computational neuroscience, neural signal processing, and clinical applications for over two decades. His research focuses on EEG and fNIRS-based measures of cognitive state, with applications in surgical training, developmental neuroscience, and brain-computer interfaces. He has led NIH- funded projects on mobile EEG diagnostics and published extensively on population-level neural modelling and multimodal neuroimaging.

Research interests:

EEG connectivity and phase dynamics; computational neuroscience; neural biomarkers for cognitive state and clinical diagnosis; surgical skill assessment; developmental neuroscience; brain-computer interfaces.