Andre F. Marquand

Associate professor
Radboud University

Andre Marquand is associate professor and principal investigator at Radboud University’s Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. His work focuses on the application of statistical and machine-learning methods to further our understanding of human brain function.

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