Emma Biondetti

Background and Research Interests

I am a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Applied Physics at the Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences. In my current role, I work in prof. Richard Wise's group, developing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques to investigate human cerebral physiology.

My current research focuses on developing methods to image the cerebrospinal fluid, a field I began exploring in 2023-2025 through a Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by the European Union's Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Actions scheme.

Previously (2018-2020), I was a post-doc at the Paris Brain Institute (ICM), Paris, France, under the supervision of prof. Stéphane Lehéricy and prof. Marie Vidailhet. Here, I developed MRI and nuclear imaging (SPECT) biomarkers for characterising disease status and progression in Parkinson's disease.

In January 2019, I obtained my PhD in Medical Physics from the University College London (UCL), London, UK, under Dr Karin Shmueli and Dr David L. Thomas's supervision. For my doctoral thesis, I developed and optimised MRI magnetic susceptibility mapping methods. I applied this technique to investigate cerbral venous oxygenation in healthy subjects and patients with arteriovenous malformations.

In 2014, I obtained my MSc in Bioengineering at the University of Padua, Padua, Italy with a thesis carried out at the Queen Square Multiple Sclerosis Centre, UCL, London, UK under Prof Claudia Gandini Wheeler-Kingshott (UCL) and Dr Alessandra Bertoldo (Padua)'s supervision. My thesis project involved using MRI to study brain anatomical connectivity based on cortical thickness measurements in healthy subjects and patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. In 2012, I obtained my BSc in Information Engineering at the University of Padua.

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