Speaker

Dr. Juan Helen ZHOU is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Sleep and Cognition, and Director, Centre for Translational MR Research, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS). She is also affiliated with NUS Medicine Human Potential Translational Research Program, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at School of Design and Engineering, and Duke-NUS Medical School at NUS. Her laboratory studies selective brain network-based vulnerability in aging and neuropsychiatric disorders using multimodal neuroimaging, psychophysical techniques, and machine learning approaches. She is well-known for her pioneering brain connectome work in the framework of network-based neurodegeneration.

Helen received bachelor’s and Ph.D. from School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She did a post-doctoral fellowship at the Memory and Aging Centre, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, and in the Computational Biology Program at Singapore-MIT Alliance. She was also an associate research scientist at Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University.

Helen has served as a Council Member and a Program Committee member of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping. She serves on the advisory board of Cell Reports Medicine and as an Editor of multiple journals including Elife, Human Brain Mapping, NeuroImage, and Communications Biology. She has received research support from National Medical Research Council, Biomedical Research Council, National Research Foundation, Ministry of Education, Singapore, and the Royal Society, UK.

Email: helen.zhou@nus.edu.sg    
Lab Web: www.neuroimaginglab.org  
Twitter: @HelenJuanZhou
Centre for Sleep and Cognition: medicine.nus.edu.sg/csc/
Centre for Translational MR Research: medicine.nus.edu.sg/tmr/

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