OHBM 2029 is coming to Rotterdam!
Authors: OHBM 2029 LOC
Editors: Zaki Alasmar, Ashley Tyrer
We are delighted to share the news that the Organization for Human Brain Mapping annual meeting, OHBM 2029, will be hosted in Rotterdam, The Netherlands on June 24-28, 2029 at Rotterdam Ahoy.
OHBM has long been the central international meeting place for researchers working to understand the human brain through imaging, computation, statistics, physiology, and clinical translation. Bringing this community to Rotterdam is more than a logistical achievement. It is an invitation to showcase the strength and diversity of Dutch neuroscience and to build new bridges across disciplines. It will all take shape within a week in which the scientific programme is amplified by workshops, satellite meetings, training events, and community-led mini-conferences across the country.
Rotterdam is an especially fitting host city. It is international, dynamic, accessible, and forward-looking; a city shaped by reconstruction, diversity, innovation, and connection.
The OHBM 2029 Rotterdam logo captures the spirit of the meeting: a stylised brain rendered as a colourful geometric map, evoking neuroimaging parcellations and Dutch modernist design. It is a visual reminder that brain mapping is both a scientific and a collaborative enterprise of many regions, methods, disciplines, and communities coming together to form a larger whole.
At the center of the design is the Erasmus Bridge, one of Rotterdam’s most recognizable landmarks. More than a crossing, the Erasmus Bridge has helped reshape the city since its conception in 1990. Within the OHBM 2029 logo, the bridge takes on an additional meaning, connecting the regions of the brain while representing the connections between people, ideas, disciplines, and communities that are at the heart of OHBM.
OHBM 2029 in Rotterdam will be a first for the Netherlands. The Netherlands has been home to influential work in cognitive neuroimaging, language and cognition, systems, clinical, and developmental neuroscience, population imaging, quantitative MRI, and open science. Institutions such as the Donders Institute, the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, Amsterdam UMC, Leiden, Utrecht, Maastricht, Groningen, Tilburg, and many others have helped shape contemporary brain science through methods development, large-scale cohort studies, clinical translation, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Rotterdam and the Dutch neuroscience community are excited to host this event for OHBM! Let us make it a showcase of what neuroscience has been, what it is now, and what it can become.
