This page aims at featuring our early careers researchers. Please feel free to browse through their pages. They all answered several questions regarding their career path and interests or click on any picture to get to know them better.
Dr Indira Garcia Cordero
Position: Postdoctoral researcher
Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of Toronto
Biomarkers, atrophy, functional connectivity, cognition, pathology
Dr Shelley Forrest
Scientific Associate
University of Toronto
Neuropathology, tau, neurons and glial cells, clinicopathological correlations.
Dr Michèle Masson-Trottier
Position: Postdoctoral research fellow
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Speech language pathology, primary progressive aphasia, language, non-invasive brain stimulation
Dr Elise Dopper
Neurologist
Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam
PSP, CBS, PPA, 7T MRI
Dr Elise Marsan
Position: Assistant Professor/Tenure-track Investigator
NIH/NIA/CARD
AD, FTD, LATE, TDP43, neurodegeneration, glia, omics, organoids
Dr Martina Bocchetta
Position: Lecturer
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Brunel University London
University College London (UK)
Neuroimaging, biomarkers, MRI, neuroanatomy, progression, presymptomatic stages
Dr Mica Clarke
Position: Postdoctoral research fellow
University College London
Neuroimaging, PET, MRI, Biomarkers
Enrico Premi, MD
Position: Neurologist
Stroke Unit, ASST Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy
Neuroimaging, frontotemporal dementia
Edoardo Gioele Spinelli
Position: Assistant Professor
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
MRI, neuroimaging, ALS, FTD
Daniel Ohm, PhD
Position: Research Associate
University of Pennsylvania
Neuropathology, neuroanatomy, cytoarchitecture, selective vulnerability, neurodegeneration, clinicoanatomical correlations
Dr Qihui Zhou
Position: Group Leader
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)
ALS/FTD, Neuroinflammation, Adaptive Immunity
Dr William Scotton
Position: Consultant Neurologist
University College London
Genetics, disease progression, biomarkers
Dr Adolfo M. García
Position: Director
Cognitive Neuroscience Center, UdeSA, Argentina
Speech, language, neurodegeneration, digital markers, cross-linguistic studies, MRI, fMRI, EEG
Dr Lauren Gittings
Position: Research Assistant Professor
Barrow Neurological Institute
C9orf72, FTD, ALS, iPSC, Cryptic Exons
Dr Tomas Leon
Position: Psychiatrist
Hospital del Salvador, Chile
BPSD, dementia training, dementia awareness
Sergi Borrego Écija, PhD
Position: Postdoc researcher
Hospital Clinic Barcelona
GENFI, neuropathology, genetics, clinical trials
Dr Chris Hardy
Position: Senior Research Fellow
University College London
Primary progressive aphasia, auditory cognition, hearing, dementia
Yuto Satake, PhD
Position: Appointed Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry, Osaka University
Neuropsychiatric symptoms
Stephanie Grasso, PhD, CCC-SLP
Position: Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Austin
Bilingualism, multilingualism, speech-language intervention, cognitive reserve
Cristiano Schaffer Aguzzoli, PhD
Position: Research Associate
Brain Institute of Rio Grande do Sul (BraIns)
Very early-onset FTD, neuropsychiatric symptoms
Dr Sheila Castro Suarez, MD
Position: Neurologist
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurologicas, Lima, Peru
Frontotemporal dementia, behavioural variant of FTD
Lydia Velzian
Position: PhD Student
University of Auckland
Blood biomarkers, miRNA, protein, extra-cellular vesicles, pre-symptomatic FTD, genetic FTD, MAPT mutation
Dr Maria Mallia
Position: Consultant Neurologist
Mater Dei Hospital Malta
Clinical research
Dr Lucy Chisman-Russell
Position: Research Fellow
University College London
Cognition, Neuropsychology, Digital Biomarkers, Disease Progression, Clinical
Dr Maxime Montembeault
Position: Assistant professor
McGill University
Primary progressive aphasia, Language, Social cognition, Neuropsychology, Digital biomarkers, Neuroimaging
Celine Sakran
Position: Doctoral Student
Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of Toronto
Neuropathology, Cognition, Neuropsychological Symptoms, Science Communication, Clinical Trials
Leah Forsberg
Position: ALLFTD Program Manager
Mayo Clinic
ALLFTD
