This is the official site for the IX Biennial Meeting of the Society for functional near-infrared spectroscopy (SfNIRS) a.k.a. fNIRS 2026 conference, the largest and most important scientific conference about fNIRS in the world.
fNIRS 2026 will be held in Macau SAR, China.
Conference Important Dates
Opening Abstract Submission: 15-Jan-2026Deadline Abstract Submission: 31-Mar-2026, GMT+8Send Out Abstract Acceptance: Apr-2026Notification of Oral/Poster: May-2026Poster/Talk Materials Upload Opens: 12-Sep-2026In-person Registration ends: 30-Sep-2026 (Early-bird ends on 20-Sep-2026)- Poster/Talk Materials Upload Closes: 7-Oct-2026, AOE (8-Oct-2026, 20:00 UTC+8)
- Virtual Conference Dates: 13/14-Oct-2026
- Virtual Flash Talk: 13-Oct-2026, 8:00–9:00 pm China Standard Time (UTC+8) / 7:00–8:00 am CDT / 1:00–2:00 pm BST
- Conference Dates: 16/19-Oct-2026
- Educational Courses Dates: 15/16-Oct-2026
Organising Committee
Sabrina Brigadoi, University of Padua, Italy.
General Chair
Zhen Yuan, University of Macau, Macau.
Local Chair
Haijing Niu, Beijing Normal University, China.
Local Chair
Rihui Li, University of Macau, Macau.
Local Chair
Jiaming Cao, University of Macau, Macau.
Educational Chair
Dalin Yang, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA.
Virtual Conference Chair
Program Committee
- Wesley B. Baker, University of Pennsylvania, US
- Lisa Bartha-Doering, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
- Chiara Bulgarelli, Birkbeck University of London, UK
- Ippeita Dan, Chuo University, Japan
- Emma Duerden, Western University, Canada
- Adam Eggebrecht, Washington University of Saint Louis, US
- Qianqian Fang, Northeastern University, US
- Jessica Gemignani, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
- Sagi Jaffe-Dax, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Xianchun Li, East China Normal University, China
- Chunming Lu, Beijing Normal University, China
- Robert Luke, Macquarie University, Australia
- Rebecca Re, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Felix Scholkmann, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Meryem Yücel, Boston University, US
- Hubin Zhao, University College London, UK
- Jana M. Kainerstorfer, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Conference Support Team
Yafeng PAN, Zhejiang University, China
Dalin YANG, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA
Zhishan HU, Shanghai Mental Health Center, China
Shuo GUAN, University of Macau, China
Jingzhe Zeng, University of Macau, China
Vidisha Goyal, Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Giulia Rocco, Università G. d’Annunzio, Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Sergio Novi, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA
Jasmine Yeh, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Augusto Bonilauri, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Sima Shirzadi, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Maheen Siddiqui, Birkbeck University of London, London, UK
Kevin Ramirez-Chavez, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
Narges Shakerian, University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA
Weina Lu, Smith College, Northampton, USA
Franziska Klein, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
Syed Hammad Nazeer Gilani, Air University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Aahana Bajracharya, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Hester van Beek, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands