Daniel com­plet­ed a B.Sc. in Bio­med­ical sci­ence at Umeå Uni­ver­si­ty, Swe­den, and a M.Sc. in Cog­ni­tive Neu­ro­science at Rad­boud Uni­ver­si­ty in Nijmegen, the Nether­lands. For the the­sis for his mas­ter’s degree he inves­ti­gat­ed a link between object mem­o­ry and spa­tial mem­o­ry using fMRI and vir­tu­al real­i­ty. After his mas­ter, he worked as a research assis­tant at the Don­ders Insti­tute in Nijmegen where he inves­ti­gat­ed devel­op­men­tal dyslex­ia and abnor­mal­i­ties in neu­ronal migra­tion with struc­tur­al MRI meth­ods. Fol­low­ing that, he worked as a research assis­tant in a project at the Don­ders Insti­tute where he was part of cre­at­ing a pipeline for MRI cross reg­is­tra­tion and hip­pocam­pal seg­men­ta­tion, which could then be able to be used as a pool for pre­dic­tive stud­ies on Alzheimer’s disease.
In 2020 he joined the O’BRAIN lab as a PhD can­di­date in the Helsin­ki part of the group, where he is inves­ti­gat­ing how diet affects the dopamin­er­gic sys­tem and how that in turn affects reward predictions.