Marcel Zwiers
MRI Researcher at Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging
Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMarcel Zwiers is an experienced MRI researcher and MR physicist with over two decades of academic and applied work in neuroimaging, currently a senior scientist at the Donders Centre specializing in acquisition and analysis methods for human brain MRI. He combines expertise in advanced imaging techniques—such as distortion correction for EPI, robust diffusion tensor estimation, and multi-band unmixing—with high-performance computing and automated analysis pipelines for large multi-center studies. Marcel has a strong track record of collaboration and infrastructure leadership, contributing to quality control, modeling scanner effects across sites, and strategic growth as a core member of the Research Infrastructure Committee. He has supervised PhD students, taught medical physics, secured grant funding, and authored over 85 scientific papers, reflecting both technical depth and productive team leadership. An early-career background in biophysics and auditory neuroscience gives him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective on imaging, signal processing, and neurobiological interpretation.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Physics, M.Sc., Physics at Utrecht UniversityPropedeuse, Medicine, Propedeuse, Medicine at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Dutch, English, German, French
Github Skills (126)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Donders-Institute/quidbbids
Apr 2025 - Apr 2026
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 182 pushes in 1 year
marcelzwiers/didi
Jul 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:1 release, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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