HCP Colleagues

Sandra Curtiss, Ph.D. – WashU

Sandy is the HCP Project Manager. She plays a key role in the overall HCP endeavor. She oversees and coordinates the activities of staff and faculty in each team, monitors progress towards key deliverables, facilitates communication between teams and ensures optimal resource allocation.

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Susan Danker – WashU

Susan is the HCP Administrative Coordinator. She provides support for the WashU Principal Investigator and the Project Manager, schedules HCP meetings, and contributes to many other administrative aspects of the project.

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Lucille Miller – WashU

 

Lucille is the Assistant Business Manager in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at WashU and is intensively involved in budgetary and financial aspects of the HCP grant.

Deb Morgan – UMinn

Deb provides administrative support for the UMinn Principal Investigator and project team.

Scientific and Technical Team

Gregor Adriany, Ph.D. – UMinn

Gregor is a Research Associate at UMinn. He is an expert in RF coil design and construction. He is developing the 48 to 68 channel coil design, and performing early implementation, testing and evaluation of prototypes. In years 3 to 5, his responsibilities will transition to maintenance, repair and quality control.

Operational team roles: OT3, OT6

Jesper Andersson, Ph.D. – Oxford

 

Jesper is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford. He is contributing to MR artifact correction and reconstruction, image pre-processing, quality control and nonlinear registration.

Operational team roles: OT1, OT2, OT3

Kevin Archie, Ph.D. – WashU

Kevin is a Programmer Analyst at WashU.  He is implementing and optimizing file distribution services in the ConnectomeDB.

Operational team roles: OT7

Edward Auerbach, Ph.D. – UMinn

 

Edward is a Research Associate at UMinn. He is involved in hardware and pulse sequence implementation on the Siemens platform, and for the development of the new 3T scanner, 7T operation/repair/and optimization, coil/preamp/TR switch interfaces and operation of highly parallel acquisitions.

Operational team roles: OT1

Abbas Babajani-Feremi, Ph.D. – WashU

 

Abbas is a staff scientist at WashU. He is working with the MEG/EEG acquisition and analysis team.

Operational team roles: OT4, OT7

Nicholas Bloom – WashU

 

Nicholas is a Research Technician at WashU. He is developing programs for presenting and analyzing the task-related fMRI paradigms.

Operational team roles: OT3

Thomas Blumensath, Ph.D. – Oxford

 

Thomas is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford. He is involved in the HARDI analysis, R-fMRI, T-fMRI, and the cross-modal integration and modeling teams.

Operational team roles: OT2, OT3, OT6

Greg Burgess – WashU

Greg is a Staff Scientist at WashU. He provides valuable expertise in the analyses and optimization of T-fMRI tasks.

Operational team roles: OT3, OT5, OT7

Audrey Chang, Ph.D. – Advanced MRI Technologies (AMRIT) and UC Berkeley

 

Audrey is a Senior Scientist at AMRIT. She is involved in the development of simultaneous image refocusing (SIR) imaging techniques, testing in HARDI, and initial evaluation on the 3T and 7T scanners.

Operational team roles: OT1, OT2

Liyong Chen, Ph.D. – Advanced MRI Technologies (AMRIT)

 

Liyong is an Advanced MRI Technologies Scientist at AMRIT. He is involved in the development of pulse sequences.

Operational team roles: OT1

Eileen Cler – WashU

Eileen is a Project Manager for Information Systems at WashU. She assists the informatics, usability, and outreach team.

Operational team roles: OT7

Tim Coalson – WashU

 

Tim is a Programmer Analyst at WashU. He is working on algorithm design and implementation for a variety of surface-based analyses needed for connectome visualization and analysis.  This includes improved surface-based registration algorithms that capitalize on information from multiple modalities, including architectonic and connectivity data.

Operational team roles: OT7

Francesco de Pasquale, Ph.D. – UdA

 

Francesco is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chieti, G.D’Annuzio. He is working with the MEG/EEG acquisition and analysis team and the cross-modal integration and modeling team.

Operational team roles: OT4, OT6

Francesco Di Pompeo, Ph.D. – UdA

 

Francesco is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chieti, G.D'Annuzio. He is working with the MEG/EEG acquisition and analysis team.

Operational team roles: OT4

Donna Dierker, M.S. – WashU

Donna is a Programmer Analyst at WashU.  She is contributing to the design and implementation of surface-based cortical analyses, helping to oversee quality control processes for cortical segmentation and surface-based registration, and contributing to the outreach effort.

Operational team roles: OT7

Jennifer Elam, Ph.D. – WashU

Jennifer is an Outreach Coordinator at WashU. She is designing and implementing a comprehensive outreach and training program to engage the scientific community as interactive tools are developed to search, analyze, and visualize HCP data.

Operational team roles: OT7

Matthew Glasser – WashU *

Matt is an MD/PhD student at WashU.  He is contributing to diffusion and resting-state fMRI acquisition protocols, pre-processing, and analysis.  In particular, he is engaged in the optimization of surface-based gradient analyses of diffusion tractography and resting state functional connectivity data and their use in brain parcellation.  

Operational team roles: OT1, OT2, OT3, OT6, OT7

* Supported by an NRSA F30 Fellowship from NIMH

Ping Gu, M.S. – WashU

Ping is a Programmer Analyst at WashU.  She works jointly with John Harwell in developing the Connectome Workbench, online search, and visualization tools.

Operational team roles: OT7

Michael Harms, Ph.D. – WashU

Mike is a Senior Scientist at WashU. He is developing and implementing methods for analyzing test-retest reliability of individual level region of interest analyses.

Operational team roles: OT3

John Harwell, M.S. – WashU

John is a Programmer Analyst at WashU. He is playing a lead role in developing the Connectome Workbench, particularly in its capabilities for surface-based analysis and visualization that build upon existing capabilities of Caret software.

Operational team roles: OT7

Mike Hodge, M.S. – WashU

Mike is a Programmer Analyst at Washington University. He is responsible for implementing the user interface for the ConnectomeDB.

Operational team roles: OT7

Will Horton – WashU

Will is a graphic designer and web developer at WashU. He is managing the HCP website, contributing explanatory graphic materials for public outreach, and aiding in the design aspects of the ConnectomeDB and Connectome Workbench user interface.

Operational team roles: OT7

Matthew House, M.S. – WashU

Matt is a Manager of Application Programming and Development at WashU. He oversees and coordinates IT and informatics efforts for the HCP, including the ConnectomeDB and the Connectome Workbench.

Operational team roles: OT7

Saad Jbabdi, Pd.D. – Oxford

 

Saad is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford. He works with the HARDI analysis team and the cross-modal integration and modeling team.

Operational team roles: OT2, OT6

Lynda Kull – SLU

 

Lynda is a MEG technician at SLU.  Her role on the project is to operate the scanner during acquisitions of MEG data from participants and to assist with data management. 

Operational team roles: OT4

Timothy Laumann – WashU *

Tim is an MD/PhD student at WashU. He is contributing to the analyses of data, including cortical parcellation based on combined HARDI and R-fMRI data. He is also engaged in the optimization of cortical parcellation methods and in the refinement of methods to evaluate different parcellations.

Operational team roles: OT3, OT6, OT7

* Supported by an IGERT fellowship

George Michalareas, Ph.D. – ESI

 

George is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ernst Strungman Institute. He is working with the MEG/EEG acquisition and analysis team.

Operational team roles: OT4

Fran Miezin, M.S. – WashU

 

Fran is a Research Associate Professor at WashU. He is contributing to the development and piloting of the scripts that will be used to administer the T-fMRI tasks, using PsyScope software.

Operational team roles: OT3

Steen Moeller – UMinn

 

Steen is a Research Associate at UMinn and a mathematician/signal-processing expert who works on parallel imaging implementations at high magnetic fields.  He is engaged in development of the algorithms for parallel imaging, development of the corresponding software for routine use, and evaluation of parallel imaging performance.

Operational team roles: OT1

Daniel Nolan – WashU

 

Dan is a Research Assistant at WashU. He is involved in generating the stimuli necessary for tasks to be presented to subjects as part of the Task-fMRI component of the grant, helping to develop the scripts, and piloting testing both the behavioral and fMRI components of the task fMRI.

Operational team roles: OT3

Tracy Nolan, Ph.D.– WashU

Tracy is a Research Assistant at WashU. She is working with the MEG/EEG acquisition and analysis team.

Operational team roles: OT4

Gianni Perucci, Ph.D. – UdA

 

Gianni is a  computer scientist at the University of Chieti, G.D’Annuzio. He is facilitating MEG data analysis.

Operational team roles: OT3

Jonathan Power – WashU *

Jonathan is an MD/PhD student at WashU. He works on the application of network theory to resting state functional connectivity MRI brain data.

Operational team roles: OT6

* Supported by an IGERT fellowship

Erin Reid – WashU

Erin is a Senior Research Technician at WashU. She serves as an Outreach Coordinator, implementing a vigorous outreach program.

Operational team roles: OT7

Emma Robinson, Ph.D – Oxford

 

Emma is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford. She is working with the Cross-modal integration and modeling team.

Operational team roles: OT6

Jonathan Schindler – WashU

Jon is a Programmer Analyst at WashU. He is working with HCP investigators to implement and refine the Connectome Workbench, its interface with the ConnectomeDB database, and the underlying analysis capabilities.

Operational team roles: OT7

Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen, Ph.D. – Donders Institute, Raboud University Nijmegen

 

Jan-Mathijs is a postdoctoral fellow at the Donders Institute at Radboud University Nijmegen. He is assisting in MEG source analysis and code development (Field Trip).

Operational team roles: OT4

Stamatios Sotiropoulos, Ph.D. – Oxford

 

Stam is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford. He is working with the HARDI analysis team.

Operational team roles: OT2

John Strupp, Ph.D. – UMinn

John is a Research Fellow at UMinn. He is involved in development and maintenance of data handling procedures for the MR scanners. His duties include networking for fast data acquisition with multichannel arrays, data transfer and storage infrastructure, and preliminary data processing software and infrastructure for data analysis.

Operational team roles: OT7

An Joseph Vu, Ph.D. – AMRIT

 

Joseph is a scientist at AMRIT. He is working with the MR hardware, pulse sequences, and pre-processing team.

Operational team roles: OT1

Gagan Wig, Ph.D. – WashU

 

Gagan is a Postdoctoral Fellow at WashU. He is assisting the cross-modal integration and modeling team. Gagan is working on using various approaches to node definition in R-fMRI networks (at the interface between parcellation and network description), and comparing methods for descriptions of network properties (e.g. community detection).

Operational team roles: OT6

J. Anthony Wilson, Ph.D. – WashU

Anthony Wilson is a Programmer Analyst at WashU. He is working on the development of data processing pipelines for ConnectomeDB.

Operational team roles: OT7

Junqian Gordon Xu, Ph.D. – UMinn

 

Gordon is a Research Assistant Professor at UMinn. He is working on the pulse sequence development team and in the operation of the 3T Skyra scanner. 

Operational team roles: OT1