Lena Salzmann

Lena Salzmann started her doctoral studies at RELab in December 2021. Within the StimuLoop project, her research is focused on personalized rehabilitation of gait in patients with Parkinson’s disease, using a neurofeedback loop.

Born in Vorarlberg, Austria, Lena studied Health Science and Technology at ETH Zurich and received her MSc degree in with a focus on Neuroscience in 2020. Throughout her education, she was particularly interested in neural control of movement and signal processing and engaged in various research institutions such as the Lab for Neural Control of Movement at ETH Zurich and the Centre for Sensorimotor Performance in Brisbane, Australia.

In her master thesis project, Lena contributed to the development of a brain-computer interface (BCI) at RELab, ETH Zurich: she conducted a study to measure brain activity with a novel fNIRS device while recording physiological parameters, and successfully applied an algorithm to differentiate brain signals from physiological noise.

Her long-term research goals include to further personalized treatment approaches by giving individualized feedback based on neurological signals from the deep brain to Parkinson’s patients.