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Visualization and exploration of multichannel EEG coherence networks
Ji, Chengtao
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A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T S
It is time to draw the conclusions from the past four years, similar to drawing conclusions in scientific articles. Four years ago when I arrived in Groningen, a beautiful city which I will never forget, I never thought I could finish my PhD project one day. At that time, I thought that four years is a long way. However, now when I look back again, I found things I experienced in these years seem to have happened just yester-day. I have to say that these previous years have been an important landmark in my life, because my life has been improved not only in the academic field, but also in life itself. These improvements could not have been achieved by myself alone. It has been the consequence of several interactions with myself (introspection) and other people. For this reason, I would like to thank the following people (and apologize in advance to anyone I may have overlooked).
First of all, I want to thank my first supervisor, Jos Roerdink. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to start my PhD under your super-vision. Your meticulous attitudes on scientific research made a deep im-pression. Each time that I discussed with you about my manuscripts, you always asked a lot of questions. It is thanks to these questions that the concepts become clearer and their elaboration more logical. In ad-dition, you are so nice that I cannot forget the day you were waiting at the Groningen station for picking me up when I arrived. For a person who goes abroad for the first time, it is a well-appreciated memory.
I am thankful to my second supervisor Natasha Maurits for her ideas, and editing my papers. I appreciate your careful reading of my manuscript and very useful comments. I know you are also an artist. I still can remember the visit to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam September, 2016. Even though I knew nothing about painting or art, you still gave me some explanations about Van Gogh’s paintings. This could be the starting point of me broadening my view, and also from there I started having more interest in various disciplines. I also want to thank you for organizing so many group activities.
Jasper van de Gronde, thanks for your suggestions for my first paper. Under your supervision, I learned a lot about how to conduct scientific research. I still can remember that you said "when the questions are well defined, what follows will be easier."
Alex is an intelligent professor, talking with him could give me much inspiration. Thanks for your suggestions for my third paper.
I wish to thank the assessment committee for their useful comments to improve this thesis. They are: Prof.Dr.-Ing. Bernhard Preim, Prof.dr. Monique Lorist, and Prof.dr. Alex Telea.
acknowledgements
I want to thank my colleagues from the SVCG group. They are: Andre, Cong, David, Deborah, Gerben, Jieying, Jiri, Lingyun, Lorenzo, Matthew, Paulo, Pieter, Rafael, Renato, Venustiano, Youngjoo. We always had a nice lunch time and coffee break. In addition, I also thank colleagues from the UMCG for having so many enjoyable group meetings and games.
The next thanks to the colleagues from the Bernoulli Institute: Ang Sha, Bohuan Lin, Chen Yang, Chenyu Shi, Donglin Sun, Jian Gao, Jia-pan Guo, Junjie Jiao, Li Guo, Liang Song, Nikolay Martynchuk, Yongjiao Zhang, Xianming Gu, Xiaofei Ai, Xiaoxuan Zhang, Xueyi Wang, Zhaoli Shen, Zhuoyun Kan, Zizhao Wu.
A special thanks to my Chinese friends. They are: Bin Jiang, Bin Liu, Fan Yang, Gang Ye, Haigen Fu, Hao Guo, Huala Wu, Huimin Ke, Jin-feng Shao, Jingjing Zhang, Jiuling Li, Juan Shan, Keni Yang, Liang Xu, Liangming Chen, Linling Liu, Luo Ge, Mingming Shi, Ning Zhou, Peng Wang, Ping Zhang, Qi Xu, Qingqing Chen, Rui Yan, Shanshan Ge, Si Chen, Tingting Sun, Xianming Gu, Xiaohong Peng, Xiaoxuan Zhang, Xingchen Yan, Wei He, Wenli Zhang, Xiang Tang, Xiangnan Liu, Xinyu Xing, Yafei Guo, Yan Yan, Yanan Wang, Yanmei Liu, Yanxi Zhang, Yehan Tao, Yizhou Wang, Yong Ai, Yuanyuan Wang, Yuchen Tian, Yuru Liu, Yuzhen Qin, Zheng Guan, Zhiwen Wang, Zhuoran Yin, Zizhao Wu.
Finally, I would like to thank my family in China. Without your sup-port and understanding, I could not have finished my PhD. It is unlucky that my grandmother died at the end of my PhD period. Tears fill my eyes when I think about the time we spent together in the past years.
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