CSHC - Center for the Study of Human Cognition

Research Fellow, PhD

I’m a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for the Study of Human Cognition (CSHC) and principal investigator of the project Structural and functional connectivity in the aging brain: cognitive consequences and genetic modifiers funded by the Research Council of Norway. In addition to colleagues at CSHC, I collaborate closely with brilliant researchers at Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford, Multimodal Imaging Laboratory (MMIL), University of California San Diego, and Oslo University Hospital (OUS).

Our research team at CSHC utilises various structural and functional neuroimaging techniques (structural/functional magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI/fMRI), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), electroencephalography (EEG), event-related potentials (ERP)) in studies of brain/behaviour interactions in a developmental and aging perspective.

My main focus is aimed at characterizing the dynamic relations between cerebral structural/functional and cognitive alterations accompanying normal child development and aging, but also the interruptions of this dynamics in pathological conditions like Alzheimer’s disease, with a particular emphasis on structural and functional brain connectivity as measured by DTI and resting-state fMRI. Large efforts are also aimed at understanding the genetic contribution to individual differences in cerebral structure, function and cognition, and further what role this genotypic variation play in modulating individual differences in developmental processes and in manifestations of pathological neurodegenerative phenotypes/conditions.

I am involved in a number of national and international research projects, with a common focus on combining neuroimaging, cognitive, genetic and clinical data in order to further our understanding of various clinical disorders as well as normal developmental and aging processes, e.g. Pediatric, Imaging, Neurocognition, and Genetics (PING).

Students interested in pursuing a cand psychol or MA thesis within any of these areas of research are encouraged to contact me.