Biography
What makes any brain unique? We develop and explore methods to compare brain organization across species. Using tools from imaging neuroscience, we investigate how the organization of one species’ brain differs from that of another and what the functional consequences of such differences are. We developed new techniques in computational anatomy to deal with the problem of quantitatively comparing brain organization across species whose brain differ dramatically in size and morphology.
This work has two primary application areas. The first is large-scale comparative neuroscience. By comparing brain organization across many species, we can reconstruct brain evolution, providing new insights into the forces that shaped the brains alive in nature today. The second is translational science. By better understanding how the brains of ‘model species’ and of humans relate to one another, we are able to help the successful translation from preclinical to clinical research.
Before taking up my current position I was a post-doctoral fellow in Oxford and at UCL, and obtained my PhD at the Radboud University Nijmegen.
Positions
- Senior Research Fellow in Neurosciences
Subjects
- Neuroscience
