HUMANISE Core Facility

Mission and Vision

The Humanise Core Facility stimulates access to lab facilities and use of research equipment at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel for empirical research on the human and artificial mind (e.g., human neurosciences and neural modelling) and body (e.g., human physiology and human-machine interaction). By sharing equipment and expertise, the Humanise core facility aims to stimulate research collaboration, fostering an environment of mutual benefit and excellence of research. 

This integration of human and artificial cognition and performance, in a unique collaboration of many faculties in the human, social and natural sciences at the VUB, is a unique endeavor in Flanders. 

Key research infrastructure (equipment and labs) of the core facility is centralized at campus Etterbeek, which serves as the main hub for the behavioral and artificial sciences and faculties. Satellite facilities and infrastructure at additional VUB locations allow expansion and further interdisciplinary collaboration of the core facility. 

Sharing Labs, Equipment and Expertise

Humanise is continuously growing. It now houses at the Posner lab experimental rooms and equipment that will increase in the coming years.

Humanise stimulates sharing and integration of expertise on methodology and use of this advanced equipment (e.g., via manuals and workshops), leading to integrated research using different approaches from different perspectives and disciplines, including (social) human, movement and artificial intelligence sciences.

You wish for more but do not find it here (or on our lab and equipment pages), please contact us. 

NEW: Fee Waiver - Users who do not have sufficient financial resources to pay the requested fees may request a fee waiver for a limited number of years, provided they add this fee to their budget proposal(s) in their next grant proposal(s). Get in touch with us for your request.

User Network and Gateway

Our users are academics, affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Brussel, other universities, or public academic research institutions, and are non-academics, affiliated with business or non-profit organization.

Other state-of-the-art equipment on the human and artificial mind and body is located at other labs at the VUB studying similar research aims. Humanise aims to provide you easy access and guidance to these labs. A list of these associated labs can be found on the equipment page.