What is consciousness? Can it be measured? While humankind has struggled with these questions for millennia, our project will focus on more modest but nonetheless ambitious and related goals. Inspired by recent developments in neuroscience and the potential role of fundamental concepts such as information and complexity, we study, model, quantify, and alter observable aspects of consciousness through AI data analysis and brain stimulation.

Everybody has played with magnets, moving iron through a piece of paper 'by magic'. The MagNeuron consortium is doing the same, but in miniature and using cells instead of paper. By moving magnetic nanoparticles inside living cells, we can orient and force neuronal cells to extend their 'arms' in the right direction, which could open a new therapeutic route to treat Parkinson's disease.