The EAN Education Committee is happy to announce the selection of participants for the Clinical Fellowship Programme 2026. This year we received a total of 85 applications and the committee were faced with a challenge to select the successful applicants. Each application was scored by two reviewers and, in the end, the available weeks were divided among 31 winners from 21 different countries.
The list of winners and future host departments:
Nouran Abd El Hamid from Egypt will be visiting the Queen Square Brain Bank, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK – supervised by Dr. Eduardo de Pablo Fernandez.
Elza Balian from Armenia will be visiting the Service des pathologies du sommeil, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital Neurology, Paris, France – supervised by Dr. Pauline Dodet.
Maeve Bradley from Ireland will be visiting the UCL Queen Square lnstitute of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurology, London, UK – supervised by Prof. Henry Houlden.
José Miguel Da Silva Alves from Portugal will be visiting the Movement Disorders Unit, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain – supervised by Dr. Alexandre Gironell.
Marc Delgado Romeu from Spain will be visiting the Department of Neurology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Switzerland – supervised by Prof. David Seiffge.
Esra Demir Ünal from Türkiye will be visiting the Movement Disorders Center, Department of Neurology, CHU Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France – supervised by Prof. Elena Moro.
Francisca Ferreira from Portugal will be visiting the Department of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences, University College London Hospitals, UK – supervised by Dr. Diego Kaski.
Anca-Maria Florea from Romania will be visiting the Department of Epileptology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Hôpital de la Timone, Marseille, France – supervised by Prof. Fabrice Bartolomei.
Davide Fontanesi from Italy will be visiting the UCL Queen Square lnstitute of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurology, London, UK – supervised by Dr. Francesca Magrinelli.
Leonor Francisco from Portugal will be visiting the Department of Neurology, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital Neurology, Paris, France – supervised by Prof. Marie Vidailhet.
Maria-Lorena Furnica from Romania will be visiting the Queen Square Brain Bank, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK – supervised by Dr. Patrick Cullinane.
Simone Gasparini from Italy will be visiting the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy, London, UK – supervised by Prof. Sanjay Sisodiya and Prof. Simona Balestrini.
Helena Gossye from Belgium will be visiting the Alzheimer Center, UMC Amsterdam, The Netherlands – supervised by Dr. Evelien Lemstra.
Eray Halil from Bulgaria will be visiting the Department of Neurology, Atkinson Morley Wing, St George’s University Hospitals, London, UK – supervised by Dr. Anthony Pereira.
Mariuca Istrate from Romania will be visiting the King’s College London – Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Headache Group, Wolfson SPaRC, London, UK – supervised by Prof. Peter Goadsby.
Aicha Kalfat from Tunisia will be visiting the UCL Queen Square lnstitute of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurology, London, UK – supervised by Prof. Henry Houlden.
Evelina Korsaka from Latvia will be visiting the Universitätsklinik für Neurologie, Salzburg, Austria – supervised by Dr. Giorgi Kuchukhidze.
Ioannis Liampas from Greece will be visiting the Dementia Research Centre, UCL Queen Square London, Institute of Neurology, UK – supervised by Dr. Natalie Ryan.
Sara Loprieno from Italy will be visiting the Neuromuscular Pathology Functional Unit, Institut de myologie – Pitié Salpétriere Hospital, Paris, France – supervised by Dr. Teresinha Evangelista.
Edita Malazogu from Kosovo will be visiting the University of Health Sciences Sancaktepe Şehit Prof Dr İlhan Varank Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Türkiye – supervised by Prof. Özdem Ertürk Çetin.
Nejra Mašić from Bosnia and Herzegovina will be visiting the Movement Disorders Department, Clinical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia – supervised by Prof. Maja Trošt.
Vitor Mendes Ferreira from Portugal will be visiting the CHU de Toulouse, Movement Disorder Unit, Parkinson’s Disease Expert Center, Toulouse, France – supervised by Dr. Margherita Fabbri.
Pierludovico Moro from Italy will be visiting the Department of Neurology, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital Neurology, Paris, France – supervised by Prof. Benjamin Rohaut.
Mundih Njohjam from Cameroon will be visiting the Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Austria – supervised by Dr. Markus Kneihsl.
Aleksa Palibrk from Serbia will be visiting the UMC Utrecht Brain Center, The Netherlands – supervised by Prof. H. Stephan Goedee.
Ketevan Paposhvili from Georgia will be visiting the Department of Neurology, Movement Disorders Group, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital Neurology, Paris, France – supervised by Dr. Emmanuel Flamand-Roze.
Enkela Puci from Albania will be visiting the Institute of Clinical Neurophysiology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia – supervised by Prof. Janez Zidar.
Kristijonas Puteikis from Lithuania will be visiting the Department of Epileptology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Marseille University Hospital Timone, France – supervised by Dr. Julia Makhalova.
Nouran Sharaf from Egypt will be visiting the Santa Lucia Foundation IRCCS, Rome, Italy – supervised by Dr. Elio Troisi.
Maria Vasilieva from Moldova will be visiting the Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Marseille, France – supervised by Dr. Agnes Trebuchon.
Massimiliano Ugo Verza from Italy will be visiting the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, UK – supervised by Dr. Maria Isabel Leite.
For 2026, additional Clinical Fellowships have been made available to RRFS members from Ukraine:
Iryna Hamal will be visiting the Santa Lucia Foundation IRCCS, Rome, Italy – supervised by Dr. Elio Troisi.
Lada Hrytchenko will be visiting the UCL Queen Square lnstitute of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurology, London, UK – supervised by Prof. Henry Houlden.
Mariia Mykhailova will be visiting the UCL Queen Square lnstitute of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurology, London, UK – supervised by Prof. Henry Houlden.
Anastasiia Revurko will be visiting the Department of Neurology, Danish Headache Center, Rigshospitalet Glostrup, Denmark – supervised by Prof. Messoud Ashina.
The Clinical Fellowship website provides interested applicants with a deeper insight into the eligibility criteria, the selection process and useful tips on how to prepare your application. New applications for 2027 can be submitted from 1 August to 31 October 2026.
