Meet the judges of Brain Bee 2026!

Rosa Rademakers
Full Research Professor. Leads the Rademakers Lab at VIB-UAntwerp, discovering and characterizing genes involved in neurological disorders, with a major focus on frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD).
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Robrecht Raedt
Associate Research Professor. President of BSN. Researches new therapies for brain cancer (glioblastoma) and glioma-associated epilepsy, focusing on repurposed drug combinations and neuroprotection against radiotherapy side effects.
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Lara Bardi
Assistant Professor at UGent. Board member of BSN. Her research lab is interested in understanding how environmental cues and/or the presence of others influence our mental processes in both social and non-social contexts.
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Bart Van Peer
Nerdland podcaster. TV producer (Brain Man, De Ideale Wereld, …) and physicist.
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Natha Kerkhofs
Nerdland podcaster. Works for an IT company and occasionally gets lost in the world of dinosaurs and quantum mechanics.
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