I joined the University of Konstanz in January 2011 as a Zukunftskolleg junior fellow, and am working on building my own research group. Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratoire de Dynamique Cérébrale et Cognition at INSERM in Lyon, France. I recevied my Ph.D. from the UCSF/Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering and the UCSF Biomagnetic Imaging Lab in 2007.

Cognition, memory, and perceptual processes are all facilitated by the electrical activity of various brain structures. The faint signatures of this activity can be detected with both electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG), with most research aiming to resolve activity near the brain surface. However, neural processing inevitably involves deeper brain structures such as the hippocampus, which plays important roles in memory encoding and spatial navigation.

Intracranial EEG can allow reliable detection of the hippocampus in certain patient populations. However, only noninvasive EEG and MEG can provide a "whole brain" view of neural dynamics. More accurate representation of recording parameters as well as improved physics models of the head may facilitate the detection of weaker brain signals, and by extension, deeper brain sources. Simultaneous recording of noninvasive MEG and intracranial EEG is another technique to provide information on the functional connections between deep brain structures and cortical processing, as well as provide clues for noninvasive detection of deep sources.

You can read more about my research here. Some of you might be looking for NUTMEG, a toolbox for reconstructing and analyzing brain activity from MEG.