Membership

Benefits of LIBC Membership:

• Access to infrastructure such as MRI scanners, EEG set-ups and the Babylab, rely on colleagues with relevant expertise
• Interdisciplinary research is facilitated by connections to colleagues from different faculties
• Access to LIBC lab meetings
• Apply for LIBC grants

Terms of membership:

• You are an employee of Leiden University or LUMC
• Your research field is related to brain and/or cognition
• You will list LIBC as one of the (additional) affiliations on your publications about brain and cognition
• You will attend the biennial LIBC symposium (including presenting your research during this symposium, occasionally)
• Yearly you will provide data for the LIBC annual report, such as a list of publications, grants etc.

If you wish to become a member of the LIBC, please fill in the form on this page.

What to do when applying for a new LIBC affiliated MRI research project:

1. Approval of the protocol by the scientific review committee of the own institute/ department. This is compulsory for approval by the CME of the LUMC.
2. To be submitted to the LIBC office (mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ): protocol and approval letter of the scientific review committee.
3. At the same time the researcher should submit the protocol to CME (LUMC). A copy of the approval letter is to be sent to the LIBC office.
4. Researchers havte to become a member of the LIBC. 

If you want to scan:

1. Submit a budget form to the LIBC office (mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ). A 4-letter code for the study will be appointed subsequently (preference for a 4-letter code can be specified by the researcher).
2. Researchers need to obtain a scan license and attend the MRI safety training. Sign up for obtaining the license at the administrators Wouter Teeuwisse and Mischa de Rover through This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . A path that leads to certification will be outlined together with the researcher.
3. The LIBC office will arrange a zero-hour contract at the Radiology department of the LUMC for researchers with a scan license, and for other researchers working on the study for a longer period of time who have done the MRI safety training.
4. The LIBC office will arrange an account for Ezis (this is only possible with a zero-hour contract).
5. Scan time can be requested and cancelled via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Time slots are scheduled in the online MRI scan calendar LIBC (www.calendar.yahoo.com/libc_3t) by the administrators Wouter and Ilya using the study’s 4-letter code. The rules are described in a standard operating procedure, which can be obtained from the LIBC office).
6. When a 4-letter code is assigned to the study the LIBC office creates anonymous participant codes (4-letter code + number).  The number of codes created depends on the number of participants specified in the approved protocol.
7. Researchers email the date and exact time of when a given participant code will be scanned to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. using the designated form, which can be obtained from the LIBC office. The anonymous participant code will be entered in Ezis at the provided date and time.