Our team is called The BrainStormers and involves mainly PhD students: Ana Matran-Fernandez (team leader), Davide Valeriani, Christian O’Connell (Cambridge University), Dr. Diego Perez-Liebana, Dr. Javier Asensio-Cubero (consultant and former Essex BCI member) and Andrei Iacob. Dr. Francisco Sepulveda is also supporting the team.

In May 2015, David Rose became the official pilot of The BrainStormers.

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Standing from left to right: Davide Valeriani, Diego Perez-Liebana, Ana Matran-Fernandez, Christian O’Connell, Hilary Rose. In the foreground from left to right: Andrei Iacob, Javier Asensio-Cubero and David Rose.

Team in the SU
Gathering in the SU bar at Essex. From left to right: Christian O’Connell, Andrei Iacob, Javier Asensio-Cubero, Diego Perez-Liebana, Davide Valeriani, Hilary Rose, Ana Matran-Fernandez, David Rose.

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