The Center is funded by the Danish Research Councils, the European Union, and the National Institutes of Health's Human Brain Project (USA).

Primo 2002 the THOR Center comprises three permanent DTU staff:

Lars Kai Hansen (head), Jan Larsen, and Ole Winther; two postdocs: Finn Årup Nielsen, Thomas Kolenda; eight PhD.-students and ten MSc.-students. The group has excellent office and computing facilities including a medium-size Linux computer farm 'bond'.

Neuroinformatics is a research field rooted in classical disciplines like signal processing, biology, physics, computer science and engineering. Neuroinformatics combines learning from the brain and learning about the brain. By studying information processing in the brain neuroinformatics invents new computing paradigms (e.g., artificial neural networks) with the objective of understanding the dynamics of the conscious mind.

The group's research is published in leading journals in the field like NeuroImage and Human Brain Mapping and has been presented at the international Human Brain Mapping conferences.

The group's contributions to neuroinformatics are

• Multivariate neuroimage analysis tools: Independent and Principal Component Analyses (PCA,ICA), spatio-temporal clustering methods.
• Evaluation methods: Learning curves and resampling methods
• Scientific visualization: The group has pioneered the use of virtual reality modelling language (vrml) in neuroimaging.
• Datamining in neuroscience databases: co-citation analysis, database cleaning