Dr. Dave Langers is a dutchman who studied Applied Physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology and subsequently acquired his physics teaching degree. After working in industrial R&D, starting 2001 he pioneered functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the human central auditory system at the Maastricht University Hospital. He performed various studies on acquisition paradigms, auditory cortical function and organization, and functional reorganization under pathological conditions, resulting in a Ph.D. in Medicine that was awarded cum laude. Since, he has continued his work at the Harvard University in Boston, USA, and the University Medical Center in Groningen, the Netherlands. From 2009 till 2011, he obtained a personal grant which allowed him to study the tonotopic organization of human auditory cortex in healthy subjects and tinnitus patients. From September 2012, he is a Research Fellow at NBRUH.

Dr. Dave Langers has a broad experience in auditory fMRI. His principal interests comprise, among others: audition, brain networks, neurophysiology, tinnitus, MR-physics, data-analysis, programming, and statistics. In recent years he has specialized towards the development of neuroimaging techniques to accurately and efficiently map the tonotopic organization of auditory cortex, with the goal to non-invasively be able to identify distinct functional subdivisions of the auditory system. He presently continues this work at NBRUH in close collaboration with the Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre.