Meet the OHBM Team
We are excited to be part of Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) and collaborate with like-minded individuals who are also passionate for neuroscience. Through this OHBM 2021 international conference, we encourage our young friends to be captivated by neuroscience, create an engaging and meaningful experiences for children to explore and learn how the brain works, and further promote brain-awareness.
Hyangwoon leefacilitator 1Dr. Lee is the Director of Epilepsy & Sleep Center, and a Professor of Neurology at Ewha Womans University School of Medicine in Korea. She received MD/PhD in Neurology and Neurophysiology from Korea and pursued her postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins University, Clinical Epilepsy Section at the NINDS, and Yale School of Medicine.
Her research focuses on multidisciplinary approach to understand brain networks and neuromodulatory control for neuropsychiatric disorders, particularly on sleep and epilepsy. She is a current member of the OHBM Diversity and Inclusivity Committee (DIC) and has been actively involved in OHBM Multilingual Kids Brain Review this year. |
kangjoo LeeFacilitator 2Kangjoo Lee is a postdoctoral research associate at the Magnetic Resonance Research Center and the department of radiology and bioimaging sciences, Yale University. She obtained her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at McGill University, Canada, for her research on the multimodal investigation of brain network hub reorganization in epilepsy and sleep.
She investigates the impact of arousal modulations on the functional organizations of the brain in humans and in animals, using a variety of neuroimaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, meso-scale Calcium imaging and pupillometry. She is leading and participating in multi-cite collaborative projects to understand the relationship between baseline brain activity and brain functions and the relationship between brain network organization and brain metabolism. She is also interested in developing brain connectivity-based predictive modeling of behavioral and clinical phenotypes in individuals developing psychiatric disorders and presurgical biomarkers of neurological disorders. She has been elected as a member of the Diversity and Inclusivity Committee (DIC) at OHBM, starting from June 2021. |
soohyun Kimpresenter 1Soo Hyun Kim is a second year, majoring in Medicine at Ewha Womans University in Korea, and she is a Korean speaker of OBHM Korean team in 2021. She also majored in Computer Engineering and graduated from Ewha Womans university and worked as a developer for two years.
Her research interests are deep learning using biometrics. She has passion and desire to utilize her career in research to diagnose and treat lesions difficult to find. As a medical scientist and computer engineer, she is also trying to gain various experiences and build her own career. |
Eunji Chopresenter 2Eunji Cho is currently a third year, majoring in Psychology and minoring in Statistics at UC Berkeley, and she is a speaker for OHBM Korean team this year. Through this opportunity, she's excited to share her passion for brain and the interesting research findings with our young friends.
Her research interests are mainly focused on sleep disorders, psychotherapeutic interventions, trauma-related disorders, depression and anxiety. And, as a passionate individual for combatting human trafficking, she hopes to become a psychiatrist one day to understand complex motivations stemmed from an individual and have a deeper understanding of an individual's emotion and traumatic experiences. |
VALENTINA BORGHESANIfacilitator 1Valentina Borghesani, Ph.D., is an Italian cognitive neuroscientist currently working as senior postdoctoral researcher within the CNeuroMod project at the Psychology Department of the Université de Montreal.
Her research focuses on the neuro-cognitive correlates of semantic knowledge which she investigates with both neuroimaging techniques (fMRI, MEG) and neuropsychological data. She deeply cares (and is very active in) bridging neuroscience & ethics, community, diversity, environment, and the arts. |
GIULIA BARACCHINIfacilitator 2Giulia Baracchini is a second-year PhD student in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University.
Her research interests lie in understanding mechanisms of inter-regional communication in the brain and their behavioural relevance, particularly in the context of cognitive control. Specifically, she is investigating whether and how large-scale network architecture interacts with BOLD signal variability patterns, in healthy aging and preclinical Alzheimer's populations. |
ANTEA D'ANDREA presenterAntea D’Andrea is a postdoctoral researcher at the University "G. d’Annunzio"of Chieti-Pescara. She is a psychologist, part of the M.A.M.B.O. (Methods And Models for Brain Oscillations) group, headed by Prof. Laura Marzetti. Antea completed her master's degree in Cognitive Neuroscience at “La Sapienza” University of Rome and her PhD in Neuroscience and Imaging at the University of Chieti.
Her main research interest focuses on investigating the role of synchronization in brain oscillations for human cognitive processes like attention and decision making. This year she is the Italian speaker for OHBM 2021 Multilingual Kids Review. |
LAURA MARZETTIhelper/back upLaura Marzetti is Associate Professor of Physics at the University "G. d’Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, where she is currently the head of the M.A.M.B.O. (Methods And Models for Brain Oscillations) group.
Laura has a PhD in Functional Neuroimaging and a background in Biomedical Engineering. Her research area is non-invasive neuroimaging, mainly MEG/EEG data analysis methods and applications to human neuroscience. She contributed to methods for functional connectivity that were among the first to provide evidence that large-scale communication in the brain is mediated by phase synchronization. Laura is part of the OHBM Diversity and Inclusivity Committee. |
ATHINA TZOVARAfacilitator 1Athina Tzovara is an Assistant Professor at the University of Bern in Switzerland. Her research is investigating how the human brain functions in the absence of consciousness, for example when a person is in a coma. She is also studying how our brains learn new information from the environment, like sounds or images. Athina will be one of the facilitators for the OHBM French team 2021.
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DEBORAH MARCIANOfacilitator 2Deborah Marciano is a postdoctoral fellow in Cognitive
Neuroscience at UC Berkeley. Deborah grew up in Paris, France, where she studied Law and Economics (Universite Paris I, LaSorbonne, France). She then moved to Israel where she studied Biology and Psychology, and completed her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel). Her research lies at the intersection between decision-making and neuroscience. Deborah is excited to be part of the French team for the 2021 Kids Live Presentation. Her three children love hearing about experiments and fun scientific facts, and they can’t wait for the Kids Presentation! |
ANAÏS LLORENSpresenterAnaïs Llorens is a cognitive neuroscientist currently doing a postdoctoral fellowship in the Knight Lab at University of California Berkley. She is the speaker for OHBM French team this year.
Her research focuses on the interface between cognitive models and brain mechanisms, with a main emphasis on working memory, language, and communication. Her expertise encompasses behavioral and electrophysiological experiments. She uses EEG with healthy and pathological populations but also intraEEG with drug refractory epileptic patients. She is also actively involved in promoting diversity in academia and specifically in STEM, which is the topic she is excited to share with the young audience through OHBM 2021. |
Ludovic Bellierhelper/back upLudovic Bellier is a postdoctoral researcher in human cognitive neuroscience, working in the Knight lab at UC Berkeley.
He aims at understanding better the auditory brain, and how we humans perceive complex sounds such as speech and music. For that purpose, he applies novel machine-learning, modeling analyses on unique human intracranial electrophysiological data, with both fundamental and applied outcomes. He is honored and excited to be a helper for the French team during the OHBM 2021 Kids Live Presentation. |
Viviana Silessfacilitator 2Viviana Siless obtained her master's degree in Computer Science at the University of Buenos Aires Argentina, and her Ph.D. from the University Paris-Sud/INRIA, under the supervision of Bertrand Thirion and Pierre Fillard. She spent 6 years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Martinos Center, MGH, Harvard Medical School.
Her research work in computational neuroimaging focused on improving the diagnosis of neurological diseases by using MRI. Her work focused on unsupervised hierarchical clustering, graph matching, multi-modal 3D surface generation, multi-modal registration, and deep learning for data harmonization. Before her PhD, she worked 4+ years as a full stack software developer.In 2018 she co-founded Quipu Market, to improve liquidity in the informal economies of LatAm. Quipu is currently being implemented in 5 slums in the Atlantico of Colombia. Viviana is the CTO, and directs a technical team for the marketplace and leads the blockchain development at Quipu. |
Eduardo Garza-VillarrealpresenterEduardo Garza-Villarreal, M.D., Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Neurobiology Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Querétaro, Mexico. Eduardo completed his M.D. at the UANL in Monterrrey, México in 2007, then his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience University of Aarhus in Denmark in 2010. His research focuses on finding new treatments for substance use disorders and other neuropsychiatric disorders, with the use of neuroimaging and the study of multiple species. Eduardo is part of the OHBM Spanish Team as a presenter this year.
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Kirk Geierhelper/backKirk Geier is a PhD Candidate in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Toronto in the lab of Dr. Rosanna Olsen. His work focuses on the contributions of the anterior and medial dorsal thalamus to memory and cognition.
Kirk is a facilitator this year for the OHBM Spanish team and will help with subtitles and with moderating the question and answer period for Dr. Eduardo Garza. |
INÊS ALMEIDAfacilitator 1Inês Almeida is graduated in Psychology and doctorate in Health Sciences. She is a postdoctoral researcher at CIBIT-ICNAS and Faculty of Medicine at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Her work is focused in the interconnected fields of experimental psychology, cognitive and affective neuroscience, using a multimodal approach (behavioural, psychophysiological and brain imaging measures). Her scientific interests concern reward processes & decision-making in the context of social interactions, in addition to emotion, and hemispheric asymmetries.She is concerned with research integrity and quality of research. She is therefore embracing Open Science and FAIR data as tools for better science and to improve research assessment, and taking part in large-scale crowsourcing research projects. At a broader level, she has been involved in local initiatives such as the PostDocs@UC, and in national and international associations such as the Portuguese Association of Grant holders (ABIC) and the European Council of Junior and Early Career Researchers (EuroDoc), to improve scientific practices and employment conditions for researchers, locally, nationally and across Europe. Finally, she has been engaged in science communication activities among the youngest, as a way of promoting a more informed society, capable of responding to challenges. |
JOÃO DUARTEfacilitator 2João Duarte is a PhD in Health Sciences, specialized in biomedical sciences, with a background in Biomedical Engineering.
His research at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, focus on the application of neuroimaging (MRI, EEG, OCT, fNIRS) and machine learning to cognitive neuroscience, namely visual perception in humans, and to the development of novel medical neuroimaging biomarkers in neurological and psychiatric disorders (e.g. multiple sclerosis, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder). Outside of his research, his interests lie in sports, traveling, writing, geography and languages. |
MARIA RIBEIRO PresenterMaria J. Ribeiro is a researcher in human neuroscience at the Coimbra Institute for Biomedical
Imaging and Translational Research (CIBIT), ICNAS, University of Coimbra, Portugal. Maria completed her BSc in physics in 1996 by the University of Porto, Portugal, and obtained her DPhil in neuroscience in 2003 by the University of Sussex, UK. Her research contributes towards unveiling the neural mechanisms behind perception, decision making and actions in humans using non-invasive neuroimaging techniques and physiological recordings. Since 2015, Maria has been working in the field of ageing. She is interested in understanding the neural changes that occur in ageing, and how they are causal to cognitive decline and contribute to the onset of neurodegenerative diseases associated with the ageing process. |
ANA LUÍSA PINHO
helper/back up 1Ana Luísa Pinho graduated in Engineering Physics at Instituto Superior Técnico (ULisboa, Portugal). Afterwards, she obtained her PhD in Biomedical Sciences at University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal) through the BEB PHD Programme in a joint collaboration with Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden).
Her PhD project was dedicated to probe the neural correlates involved in musical creativity, using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. She is now working as a Postdoctoral Researcher on the development of neuroimaging datasets and brain-atlasing techniques to map cognition in the human brain. |
Pedro Pinheiro-ChagasHelper/back up 2Pedro studied Psychology and Neuroscience at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Brazil, and completed his PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Sorbonne University in France under the supervision of Stanislas Dehaene.
He is now a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University where he studies how the brain does elementary mathematics. |