IST School - Valparaíso 2027

Dr. Pamela Guevara is a Full Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Concepción, Chile, where she leads the Medical Image Analysis Group. Her research is focused on developing novel methods for studying brain connectivity using diffusion MRI. In recent years, her group has placed a special interest in analyzing the superficial white matter and creating diffusion-based cortical parcellations for clinical applications.

François Rheault has been an Assistant Professor at the Université de Sherbrooke in Canada since 2022. His primary research focuses on diffusion MRI and tractography within the human brain. A notable aspect of his work is the creation of open-source resources designed to streamline the incorporation of multi-modal imaging and tractography, alongside scientific visualization.

Dr. Chiara Maffei is Instructor in Radiology at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on the optimization and clinical translation of automated diffusion MRI tractography tools. She works on the accurate delineation, validation, and quantification of white matter structures in healthy subjects, as well as in adolescents with anxiety/depression and patients with traumatic brain injury.

Alessandro Daducci is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Verona, Italy. He obtained his PhD in 2010 and completed postdoctoral fellowships at EPFL (Switzerland) and the University of Sherbrooke (Canada). His research focuses on developing new methods for microstructure informed tractography to increase the anatomical accuracy of white matter reconstructions and provide more veridical estimates of brain connectivity.

Louis Concha is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Neurobiology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His research focuses on quantitative diffusion MRI for the study of neurological disorders, with special interest in epilepsy. He combines clinical MRI with animal models to understand what causes some specific brain lesions to be epileptogenic, how this process evolves over time, and how it affects cognitive abilities.

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