Mahnaz graduated in Biomedical Engineering from Tehran University. She initially joined as a research fellow with a scholarship that was awarded to her by her home university. Afterwards, she continued as a PostDoc to develop information theory methods to uncover signaling pathways in multimodal brain imaging data.

Antonia studies the connection between cerebral and peripheral energy metabolism, using glucose-clamp procedures in the MRI. She has extensive experience in neuropsychological testing of human subjects while using different imaging methods. Antonia received a BSc in Psychology and her MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from the Donders Institute before joining our group. If you want to learn sophisticated hip-hop moves, Antonia is your instructor.  

Samira studies the changes in energy consumption of human brain networks when subjects perform cognitive tasks. During her PhD, she became an expert in quantitative BOLD imaging, which she currently applies at 7T and to patient cohorts. Samira received a BSc and MSc in Psychology before joining our group. If you want to know when the next big climate demonstration takes place, ask Samira.

Jingxian studies directional signaling across the cortex during sensory processing and anticipation. She has profound knowledge in mathematical modeling of electrophysiological signals from human brain recordings. Jingxian received her BSc in Imaging Engineering and her MSc in Neurobiology from South China Normal University. Happy 兔 year for your start into your PhD!