10. December 2025

OPMEG Research Is Coming to Bonn: Dominik Bach Wins Grant for Building New Brain Scan Facility Dominik Bach Wins Grant for Building New Brain Scan Facility

The Hertz Chair and director of caian, Professor Dominik Bach, receives almost 4 Mio. EUR of EFRE/JTF funding for building a new OPMEG infrastructure at University of Bonn's medical campus

We are excited to announce that over the course of the next three years, Professor Bach will install and establish an infrastructure for OPMEG research at University of Bonn's medical campus.

OPMEG-compatible VR headset
OPMEG-compatible VR headset - This image shows one of the research assistants - from Prof. Dominik Bach’s team at the University College London wearing an imaging helmet and the prototype of the new OPMEG-compatible VR glasses. © Photo: Steven Lieu/University of Bonn
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Read the University's full press release here.

The funding of almost four million euros is structural funding from the EFRE/JTF program NRW 2021–2027. This program is run by the state government of North-Rhine Westphalia and the European Union and supports projects and ideas that aim to help people open up new potential, create sustainable jobs and actively shape the digital and green transformation.

Please direct your inquiries regarding this project to:

Prof. Dr. Dominik Bach
Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (caian)
University of Bonn
E-mail: d.bach@uni-bonn.de

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