OUR TEAM
Joana Pereira
Principal Researcher, Associate Professor, Group Leader
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
I am leading an interdisciplinary group of neurologists, engineers and physicists with the aim of detecting early signs of neurodegenerative diseases. My focus is to combine the different expertises present in the group to wage a successful attack on these disorders using multi-modal methods.
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Anna Canal Garcia
PhD student
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
I am working with brain connectivity methods and their application to ageing and Alzheimer’s disease. My project consists of integrating multimodal and multiscale neuroimaging data using multilayer brain networks. I am one of the main developers of BRAPH 2.0, a software for brain connectivity analysis with multilayer graphs and deep learning.
Mite Mijalkov
Postdoctoral researcher
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
I have developed a novel approach to assess dynamic brain connectivity and successfully applied it to patients with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, showing that this method is more sensitive to subtle alterations occurring in these disorders. Lately, I have been working with neuromorphic computing to obtain new imaging biomarkers that reflect brain function.
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Daniel Vereb
Postdoctoral researcher
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
I am working with functional connectivity gradients to identify early alterations of connectivity organisation in people at risk of developing neurodegenerative disorders. I related these gradient patterns with different cognitive and psychiatric tests in my studies. I have a particular focus on studying gradients in small subcortical regions of the brain.
More…Blanca Zufiria Gerbolés
PhD student
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
I am currently working on developing new deep learning methods to explore brain connectivity in ageing and Alzheimer’s Disease from different brain imaging modalities. I am also interested in developing new neural network architectures applied to neuroimaging, with the aim of contributing to improved diagnostic.
My current focus is to assess the value of different types of networks for predicting early changes in Alzheimer’s disease using machine learning methods. I am interested in how different imaging modalities can help us to perform an accurate prediction of disease progression. I also work with other projects focusing on functional connectivity using seed-based analyses.
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Postdoctoral researcher
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
My research at KI focuses on the brain connectome derived from amyloid and tau PET imaging modalities as well as their association with transcriptomics in aging and neurodegenerative disorders. I am interested in linking genetics to brain imaging to understand the mechanisms underlying brain alterations in diseases.
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Massimiliano Passaretti
Research assistant
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
My main focus is to investigate different clinical phenotypes using brain imaging and multi-omics data in neurodegenerative disorders. I am particularly interested in testing new pathophysiological hypotheses that predict the spread of these disorders in the brain and assessing their consequences on longitudinal clinical function.
More…Emma Chadwick
Connected to Research
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
My main focus is to investigate different clinical phenotypes using brain imaging and multi-omics data in neurodegenerative disorders. I am particularly interested in testing new pathophysiological hypotheses that predict the spread of these disorders in the brain and assessing their consequences on longitudinal clinical function.
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Jasmine Soto Selldahl
Connected to Research
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
My research interests are focused on understanding brain imaging changes in neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. In addition, I am interested in using biofluid markers to better understand the disease’s pathophysiology and use neuropsychological tests to understand the different clinical profiles of patients.
More…Ida Karimpour
Connected to Research
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
My current research interests are focused on understanding brain imaging changes in Alzheimer’s disease. To gain a better understanding of the pathophysiology of the disease, I am interested in how we can use biomarkers in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid in our analyzes together with brain imaging from MRI.
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Greta Maier
Connected to Research
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
My main focus is to explore how a multilayer network model can be effectively applied to study the complexities of anatomical and functional connectivity in the brain, particularly focusing on the changes that occur during aging and in Alzheimer’s disease.
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