Maureen Minnema

Teaching

At the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, I contribute to university teaching, including practical sessions on wearables for master’s courses and workshops. I furthermore regularly represent our lab in interviews with secondary-school students working on their final-year research projects, and students of all levels, introducing them to sleep and (lucid) dreaming research). I have also taught seminars at the University of Osnabrück in 2023 (course: “The (cognitive) science of peace”) and the University of Amsterdam in 2022 (course: “Cognition”), supporting group discussions, course organisation, and assessment. Beyond university teaching, I have around four years of tutoring experience across natural sciences and all secondary-school levels in the Netherlands. I have also led science and coding activities at summer camps for primary-school children and completed a youth leader qualification course.

2026

  1. [practical] Wearable EEGs in Sleep Research

    Donders Institute · NeurotechEU

    For the NeurotechEU Hackaton on ‘Wearable Neurotechnology: fNIRS and EEG’, I will give a 1 hour practical course of the wearables used in the sleep lab. We focus primarily on our 2-channel EEG forehead wearables, but also include include the at-home polysomnography set-up and wearables watches and ECG hardware.

  2. [guest lecture] The Organization Behind At-Home Sleep Studies

    University Osnabrück

    The study project on ‘Emotion Regulation in Sleep’ of the Master’s Cognitive Science program at University Osnabrück invited me for a guest lecture on the my work as research assistant at the Sleep & Memory lab.

  3. [presentation] The Ethics of Using Wearables in Sleep Research

    Research Hub Neuroethics · Bonn, Germany

    As part of the early-career consortium of the Germany-based Research Hub on Neuroethics (RHUNE), I was invited to speak at their first Future Workshop, organized in collaboration with NeurotechEU. The 2-day workshop was titeld: “Neuroethics in Transition: Challenges and Opportunities for Research, Policy, and Society.” I delivered a short presentation on the ethical questions I come across in my daily work in sleep research, especially regarding the use of wearable neurotechnologies.