The Open Neuroimaging Journal

Rong Chen is an Assistant Professor in the department of Radiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine. He completed his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Washington State University in 2003, and his MTR in Translational Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. He has published about 50 peer-reviewed research articles in the areas of computational neuroscience, neuroimaging, machine learning, biomedical image analysis, and translational medicine.

Dr. Dretsch is an active-duty officer and research psychologist in the US Army. His research includes assessing the impact of combat-related neurologic and psychiatric conditions, such as traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress disorder, on brain functioning and structure in order to improve screening, diagnostics, and outcome assessments. In addition, his work is also aimed at exploring predictive factors associated with vulnerability to these injuries and psychopathologies. Dr. Dretsch incorporates a multimodal assessment approach using comprehensive batteries of neuropsychological, self-report, proteomic and lipidomic, genetic, and neuroimaging measures to better understand the pathophysiologic underpinnings of clinical presentation and identify potential biomarkers.

Dr. Alexander A. Fingelkurts is a co-founder and co-head of a research organization BM-Science – Brain & Mind Technologies Research Centre. Dr. Fingelkurts holds PhD in human psychophysiology from the Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia). Throughout his academic scientific career, he has obtained knowledge, experience and expertise in advanced quantitative electroencephalogram EEG analysis, cognitive neuroscience and systemic psychophysiology. Currently his main research interest is in the area of consciousness studies. From 1998 onwards, Dr. Fingelkurts has delivered to the community more than 100 publications, book chapters and conference presentations. Dr. Fingelkurts is an active member of 7 professional scientific organizations.

Dr. Amgad S. Hanna obtained his M.B.B. Ch (Medical Bachelor & Bachelor of Chirurgie) in 1990 from Cairo University, Egypt, and then his D.I.S. (Inter-university Diploma of Specialization) in Neurosurgery in 1999 from University of Rennes I, France. He is currently Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, in the Department of Neurological Surgery, at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Dr. Hanna specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders related to the spine and peripheral nerves. Additionally, he has experience in complex spine surgery, treatment of intradural tumors, and minimally invasive spine surgery and kyphoplasty. Dr. Hanna has published over 35 articles in various journals of international repute.

Dr. Rajesh Kana is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Undergraduate Neuroscience Program at the University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB). He has more than 15 years of research experience in neuroimaging and neurodevelopmental disorders. Dr. Kana earned his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India. His training in neuroimaging was from UCLA and Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Kana is a William Fulbright research fellow and the Civitan-McNulty Scientist. His research focuses on investigating the diagnostic utility of neuroimaging-based inferences in developmental disorders, and in testing the effectiveness of behavioral intervention on the brain in autism.

Igor Lima Maldonado is MD specialist in Neurosurgery, Mathematician and PhD. He is currently Professor and Researcher in the Department of Biomorphology at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. He conducts investigations on cerebral connectivity, targeting the functional anatomy of white matter tracts and their importance for oncological neurosurgery. Other studies have target cerebrovascular diseases and their treatment with endovascular techniques. Dr Maldonado is a Smart Loire Valley Research Fellow and an active member of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies Anatomy Committee, whose mission is to promote neurosurgical anatomy worldwide and enhance information exchange among those involved neuroanatomical research.

Dr. Mayumi Nishi, currently working as a Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Nara Medical University, Japan since 2009. She has completed his PhD from Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine and MD from Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine. She is also serving as Director of the Japan Neuroendocrine Society. She has more than 100 publications in different SCI Journals. Her main research interests include Cell Biology, Anatomy, Neurobiology, Neural Science and Anesthesiology.

Prof. Alessandra Pacini is currently in the Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine – Anatomy Section at the University of Florence, Italy. Graduated in Biological Sciences at the University of Florence in 1993, she gained her Specialization in Biochemistry and Clinical Chemistry in 1997 and her PhD in Pediatric Sciences at the University of Firenze in 2001. Current research targets on the study of the blood brain barrier and its alterations in the presence of toxic substances in in vitro systems. Research also focuses on the use of focused ultrasound for the blood brain barrier permeability regulation in order to deliver drugs inside the central nervous system.

Dr. Stefano Tamburin did his Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Clinical Neurophysiology from University of Verona (2005). His current specific areas of research include neurodegenerative disorders (Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, cerebellar ataxia) examined with an integrative and translational approach that encompasses clinical evaluation, cognitive assessment, instrumental tools(neurophysiological techniques, imaging, psychophysics). Dr. Tamburin clinical interests include neurodegenerative disorders, with a specific focus on Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, cognitive disorders, pain, and clinical neurophysiology.

Dr. Ayush Dogra is currently working as CSIR-NPDF at CSIR- CSIO(Research lab- Government of India) at Chandigarh. He has also worked as a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, UIET, PANJAB UNIVERSITY. His doctoral research focuses on devising a novel and innovative, market oriented mechanisms for medical image fusion. He has published numerous papers in highly cited journals and conferences. He is currently doing editorial/reviewing work for various highly reputed SCI/SCIE and Scopus indexed journals. His research areas primarily are image fusion, image enhancement, image registration and image denoising. His research acumen is exhibited by various other prestigious awards.

Dr. Μαrια-Εleptherια Evangelopoulos is a neurologist and an Assistant Professor of neurology at the medical school, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She did her PhD in Neurosciences from University of Bern, Switzerland in the year 2005. She has around 44 Publications in International Journals to her credit.

Dr. Andrew A. Fingelkurts is a co-founder and co-head of a research organization BM-Science – Brain & Mind Technologies Research Centre. Dr. Fingelkurts holds PhD in human psychophysiology from the Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia). Throughout his academic scientific career, he has obtained knowledge, experience and expertise in advanced quantitative electroencephalogram EEG analysis, cognitive neuroscience and systemic psychophysiology. Currently his main research interest is in the area of consciousness studies. From 1998 onwards, Dr. Fingelkurts has delivered to the community more than 100 publications, book chapters and conference presentations. Dr. Fingelkurts is an active member of 7 professional scientific organizations.

Dr. Li Hu obtained his Ph.D. degree (in 2010) in Biomedical Engineering from The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P.R. China. Dr. Hu is currently Professor in the Institute of Psychology at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China. His skills and expertise mainly lie in the subject areas/fields of Electroencephalography, Event-Related Potentials, Pain Perception, Tomography, Inverse Problems, Evoked Potentials, Priming, Time-Frequency, etc. Dr. Hu, as an author/co-author, has published more than 80 articles in various journals, having over 1,000 total citations.

Dr. Lanza works as a Senior Academic Researcher at the University of Catania (Italy). After graduation with honours in Medicine, He got trained at the School of Neurology and got the international PhD at the University of Catania (Italy). As visiting Clinical Research Fellow, he was further trained at the Department of Neuroscience, Newcastle University (UK). In 2013 he was selected for a Scientific Fellowship promoted by the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS). From 2013 to October 2018 he worked as Consultant Neurologist at the Oasi Research Institute – IRCCS in Troina (Italy), which is a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization (WHO).

Dr Gaurav Malviya did his PhD and Postdoc in Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging field. At present, he is Head of Nuclear Imaging Lab at the Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute, Glasgow (UK), where he also established a new pre-clinical PET/MRI imaging facility. Dr Malviya is the author of several peer reviewed research articles (IF >150), book chapters, and other international publication. Also, he twice received prestigious International Research group in Immuno Scintigraphy and Therapy Award – “IRIST Award”. Dr Malviya’s research interest mainly emphasis on development and pre-clinical evaluation of novel PET, SPECT, CT and MRI imaging probes for translational cancer imaging in GM mouse models.

Dr. Marco Orsini did Graduation in Medicine from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Later, he obtained his Masters in Public Health degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Doctor of Medicine (Neurology) degree from Fluminense Federal University, UFF, Niterói, Brazil. Dr. Orsini has numerous scientific research and journal article publications to his credit.

Dr. Mehrdad Razavi obtained his M.D. degree (1994) from University of Vienna School of Medicine, Vienna, Austria. Dr. Razavi currently holds the following positions: (1) Medical Director, Advanced Sleep Diagnostics, Redding / Red Bluff, CA (2010-present); (2) Medical Director, Neurosleep Diagnostics, Aberdeen, WA (2011-present); and (3) President, International Society for Cognitive Rehabilitation (SCR) (2009-present). His areas of research interest involve Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia, FMRI and Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Rehabilitation, and Sleep Medicine. Dr. Razavi has published articles in various journals concerning these research topics, and is also an ad-hoc reviewer for various journals, such as Human Brain Mapping, IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, etc.

Dr. Dongrong Xu, working as an Associate Professor and Research Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, NY and MRI Unit, New York State Psychiatric Institute respectively. He has completed his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Zhejiang University, China. He has done Siemens Certificates for IDEA Pulse Sequence Programming & Image Calculation Programming in 2011. He has 3 patents and more than 100 publications in SCI journals. His main research interests are Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI), Biomedical Image Analysis, functional MRI(fMRI), Computer-Aided Design, Virtual Reality in fMRI.

Dr. med. Patrick Michael House studied medicine at University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) during the period of 1994-2001. Since 2007, he is a Senior consultant at the Hamburg Epilepsy Center. His current research areas are MRI post-processing of 7 Tesla images and 3D brain visualization. He is editorial board member of various recognized journals and has notable publications to his credit.