News and Awards

2 July 2025

We are proud to announce that Jimmy JIN, a PhD student from our group, has been awarded the Champion title at the 'Hong Kong Polytechnic University Three Minutes Thesis 2025 Competition'.  Later this year, she will represent PolyU at the three-minute thesis competition for worldwide universities held in Queensland.  

16 June 2025

Presenting our research at the CINP-AsCNP Conference in Melbourne, Australia.  

11 June 2025

Our PhD student, Jimmy JIN has been awarded the Champion title in the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences Three Minutes Thesis 2025 Competition.  

10 May 2025

Celebrating Bingbing and Rebecca's PhD graduation.   

2 May 2025

Our two outstanding PhD graduates, Bingbing and Rebecca, have received the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences Distinguished Thesis Awards.   

7 April 2025

Performing the world's first simultaneous TMS/fNIRS/fMRI scan.   

23 March 2025

The Kranz Group attended the 6th Brain Stimulation Conference held at Kobe, Japan. Dr. Kranz, Dr Zhang, Jimmy, Adam, Penny and Wanda presented their projects with the peers.    

5 February 2025

Our team's PhD student, Bingbing, has achieved a significant milestone by successfully completing her final oral defense. Her outstanding presentation has earned her the title of Doctor. Congratulations, Dr. Zhang!   

28 November 2024

Professor Alexander Sack from Maastricht University, was with us giving a talk about his team's research on 'Advances in transcranial brain stimulation and applications in neuropsychiatric disorders'.   

26 November 2024

We are excited to announce that Rebecca from our team has finished her PhD oral defense today and is now a postdoc. Welcome to Dr. Kan!!

13 October 2024

Bingbing, Rebecca, Jimmy and Adam presented at 'The Neurotechnology Innovation Forum in Shanghai'. Bingbing received the 'NTIF Award for Excellence in Neuromodulation' and Adam received the 1st runner up award for poster presentation.   

12 October 2024

Our PhD student Penny Qin attended and presented her study at the '1st International Transcranial Pulse Stimulation (TPS) Symposium' held in Neuss, Germany.  

4 October 2024

It is our pleasure to invite Prof. Frank Padberg from the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Munich, Germany, to present his study on "Child Maltreatment and Mental Health Care.".      

13 September 2024

Meeting the expert- sharing with Prof. Allan Young, Head of School, Academic Psychiatry, King's College London.      

8 August 2024

Dr Kranz won the 'Outstanding Young Researcher Award' in the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences. The 'Outstanding Young Teacher Award' was presented to Vera, a PhD student in our team.      

21 May 2024

Presenting our research at the 35th CINP World Congress of Neuropsychopharmacology in Tokyo, Japan         

30 April 2024

Bingbing presenting at the The 6th Neurotechnology Innovation Forum & Founding Conference of the Basic and Translational Neuromodulation Branch of Chinese Neuroscience Society and receiving the "CNSNM2024 Award for Excellence in Neuromodulation"

12 April 2024

Our team member, Mr. Tim Lin was awarded the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship 2024/25.

22 February 2024

Setting up concurrent TMS/fMRI with Dr. Martin Tik.

24 November 2023

13th Pan-Pacific Conference on Rehabilitation with Prof. Cheng-Ta Li and Prof. Tifei Yuan.

 

9 November 2023

Liuteng graduates with a Master of Science in Rehabilitation of People with Developmental Disabilities.  

     

30 June 2023

Hiking at Lantau Island (大嶼山), with campfire and BBQ at the beach.

20 October 2023

Georg giving a keynote lecture at the Congress of Brain Disease, World Federation of Chinese Medicine, in Haikou, China

30 June 2023

Georg and colleagues present "Recent Advances in Brain Stimulation Research for Mental Health" in the Mental Health Research Centre seminar at PolyU.

15 June 2023

Bingbing wins the Three Minute Thesis competition! The event was held by the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences at PolyU.                                                                                             

8 May 2023

Catching-up with colleagues from Vienna at the 34th CINP World Congress of Neuropsychopharmacology in Montreal, Canada.

18 April 2023

A lab day for hiking and plunging on the Ping Nam (屏南) stream!   

21 February 2023

Bingbing enjoying the 5th International Brain Stimulation Conference in Lisbon with Prof. Mark George.

20 February 2023  

Meeting Dr. Zhi-De Deng and Prof. Andre Brunoni at the 5th International Brain Stimulation Conference in Lisbon, Portugal.

9 December 2022

Our team enjoying German beer and food after work in Hong Kong.       

March - July 2021 

Bingbing received the Eurasia-Pacific Ernst Mach Scholarship to conduct research in Austria for six months.        

30 September 2019

Bingbing graduates with a Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering         

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