Nele Demeyere

Principal Investigator

Professor Nele Demeyere heads the Translational Neuropsychology research group at the University of Oxford. The lab’s research interests are at the interface of cognitive neuropsychology and clinical practice in stroke. Dr Demeyere completed a PhD in Neuropsychology at the University of Birmingham (2010) and held postdoctoral positions at Birmingham and then Oxford.

She received the Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Stroke Association lectureship award in 2015, starting the research group as an Associate Professor in 2016. Prof Demeyere was awarded the Stroke Association’s Priority Programme Award into psychological effects of stroke in 2019, followed by an NIHR advanced fellowship (2022-2027) to develop a cognitive carepathway intervention. She was conferred the full professor title at the University of Oxford in 2024.

Her research spans the translational axis in neuropsychology: From fundamental cognitive neuropsychology, to clinical tool development for cognitive screening, and observational cohort studies capitalising on real-world clinical cohort data, including routinely acquired NHS brain scans. She led the development and implementation of the Oxford Cognitive screen which is now used as the clinical standard in a large number of stroke units, both in the UK and internationally (>2400 clinical users) and is included as a recommended first line screen for stroke in national and international clinical guidelines.

Following this, her group have created follow up digital screening tools in the OCS-Plus and a digital multiple errands task. Current work is focussed on cognitive trajectory predictions and developing a complex cognitive care pathway intervention.

More info on cog screening www.ocs-test.org

More info on current projects in the lab: www.demeyerelab.org