Trainings & Conferences

Conferences, workshops and trainings of interest to the OpenfNIRS community can be found at the Society for functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (SfNIRS) and the Facebook page of the SfNIRS. We at OpenfNIRS are also happy to support the community in organizing relevant trainings, conferences and workshops by providing webpages on our server that the organizers are permitted to edit. Please contact us if you wish to organize such a webpage.

Trainings

Upcoming Events

October 16-19th 2026 – Pre-Conference Cedalion Workshop – SfNIRS 2026 Conference, Macau, China (TBA)
August 24-25th 2026 – 1,5 day Cedalion Workshop, Berlin Germany – REGISTER HERE
July 12th 2026 – Pre-Conference Cedalion Workshop – Neuroergonomics 2026, Boston, USA

General Information

Good resources for up-to-date information about fNIRS training opportunities are the newsletter of the Society for functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy and the Facebook page of the SfNIRS.

Different groups offer fNIRS courses and workshops throughout the year (let us know of any others to include here):

- The Boston University NeuroPhotonics Center holds an annual 3-day fNIRS course run by David Boas and Meryem Yücel (previously hosted at the Martinos Center at Massachusetts General Hospital).

- Dr. Ted Huppert and lab at the University of Pittsburgh hosts a two-day intensive fNIRS training course on advanced data analysis and experimental design.

- NIRx holds regular training webinars.

Past Events

Conferences

Upcoming Events

Neuroscience in the Everyday World #2, Boston University, August 26-27, 2024

Past Events

- Neuroscience in the Everyday World #1, Boston University, August 29-30, 2023

- fNIRS 2022 – biennial conference, Boston, USA

- fNIRS 2020 – biennial conference, virtual

- fNIRS 2018 – biennial conference, Tokyo, Japan