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Steve Majerus is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Belgian National Fund of Scientific Research and an honorary lecturer at the Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience Research Center (University of Liege). He received his Ph.D. in psychological sciences in 2002 (University of Liege www.ulg.ac.be, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences) and has been a visiting research fellow at the MRC-Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK, and more recently, at the Department of Psychology, University of Sussex. Besides his interest in the neural and cognitive substrates of the interface between language and memory, he has also kept an active interest in the behavioral assessment of altered states of consciousness. He has adapted and validated a French version of the Wessex Head Injury Matrix (WHIM; Shiel et al., 2000), a sensitive tool for detecting minimal signs of awareness in severely brain damaged patients, and has promoted the use of this tool in French-speaking European countries.

Christophe Phillips – PhD in Applied Sciences (ULg, 2000) Civil Electrical Engineer in Electronics (ULg, 1996) Research Associate at Cyclotron research Center

Jean-Floris Tshibanda – MD, Head of Clinics, Neuro-radiology (Pr Robert Dondelinger)

National associates

Philippe Peigneux – PhD, Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, Unité de Recherches en Neuropsychologie et Neuroimagerie Fonctionnelle (Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Research Unit), Faculty of Psychological and Educational Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Serge Goldman – MD, PhD Head of Nuclear Medicine ULB Erasme Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Axel Cleeremans – PhD Cognitive Science Research Unit, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Jan Bernheim – MD PhD Human Ecology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Manfredi Ventura – MD Center for Traumatology and Rehabilitation, Brussels

Manfredi Ventura is medical director of the CTR (Center for Traumatology and Rehabilitation) of Brussels. He graduated from the Université Libre de Bruxelles medical school in 1988. He performed his training in neurology at ULB hospital Erasme in Brussels and was a fellow in behavioral neurology at Boston University USA (1991-1992). He is specialist in neurology (1993) and in neurological rehabilitation (1995) and holds a master in medical management (ULB) (1998). He was appointed as the responsible for the newly created neurological rehabilitation unit of Erasme Hospital ULB, then director of the ambulatory neurological rehabilitation center of this hospital before leaving for the CTR. He remains consultant at Erasme Hospital for cognitive and memory disorders and is the responsible neurologist in a center for adult with cerebral palsy in Brussels (Facere).

Dr. Ventura is stage master in neurology (ULB), professor of neurology and neurological rehabilitation at Haute Ecole Francisco Ferrer (post graduate level for paramedical professions) and of pathological neurology at ISEK (school of physiotherapy). He contributes to the teaching of the inter-universitary DES (ULB, UCL, ULG) in physical medicine and rehabilitation, and in palliative and end-of-live medicine. His main interest are head trauma, spinal cord injury and dementia/Alzheimer disease, and neurological rehabilitation. Dr. Ventura is currently active in several commissions at the Belgian federal ministry of health, INAMI/RIZIV and KCE and is president of the Wallonia-Brussels platform for PVS-MCS and of the AFIGAP (French society for spinal cord lesions).

Erika Peeters – MD Ziekenhuis Inkendaal Vlezenbeek

Erika Peeters is neurologist from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) (1998) and accredited for neurorehabilitation. She currently works in Ziekenhuis Inkendaal Vlezenbeek an expert center for post-comatose revalidation. She is head of a 31 bed section for severe acquired brain damage and has as a special interest in VS and MCS. Active member of the federal platform, she is reference physician for 16 “expert VS-MCS beds”. She is actively engaged in the development for good clinical practice guidelines and the ethical framework for the care for chronic VS MCS patients.

Engelien Lannoo – PhD Locomotor & Neurological Rehabilitation Center, Ghent University Hospital

Engelien Lannoo graduated as a Clinical Psychologist from Rijksuniversiteit Gent in 1991 and obtained her Ph.D. studying long-term neuropsychological and psychosocial outcome following moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (2000, Faculty of Medicine, UGent). Her current position is neuropsychologist in the adult acquired-brain-injury unit of the Center for Locomotor and Neurological Rehabilitation of the Ghent University Hospital. She participates in the Federal VS MCS project and in the national study project on chronic care needs of adult people with acquired brain injury of the Belgian Health Care Knowledge Center. Advocating for availability, quality and accessibility of care for people with acquired brain injury, her clinical and research interests include epidemiology, rehabilitation, reintegration, care needs, prognosis, follow-up and outcome of acquired brain injury.

International associates

Fabien Perrin – PhD Maître de Conférence, Université Lyon 1, France

Manuel Schabus – PhD Psychology, University of Salzburg, Austria

Adrian Owen PhD, Martin Coleman PhD & John Pickard MD – Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK

Nicholas Schiff – MD Laboratory of Cognitive Neuromodulation, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA

Joseph Giacino – PhD Associate Director of Neuropsychology, JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute and New Jersey Neuroscience Institute, Edison , NJ

Haibo Di PhD & Yizhang Chen MD – Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

Xuchu Weng PhD & Pengmin Qin MS – Laboratory forHigher Brain Function, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Brent Vogt – PhD President Cingulum NeuroSciences Institute and Research Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, NY, USA

Ron Kupers – Phd Associate Professor, PET Unit & Dept. Surgical Pathophysiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Louis Puybasset – MD Departement d'anesthesie-reanimation, groupe hospitalier Pitie-Salpetriere, Paris, France

Andrea Kübler – PhD Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioural Neurobiology, University of Tubingen, German

Frederic Pellas – MD, Neurorehabilitation Medicine, Hôpital Caremeau, CHU Nîmes, 30029 Nîmes cedex, France

Inez Germeys PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

Giulio Tononi – MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA