José Luis Alatorre Warren
Senior Engineer
Research Focus
During my postdoctoral training, I used both structural and diffusion MRI, along with polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT), to explore the relationship between spatiotemporal patterns of neural pathway growth and gyral/sulcal formation in typically developing children and those with neurodevelopmental disorders. Furthermore, I tracked, quantified, and compared spatial changes in cortical folding and white matter connectivity during early postnatal brain development in humans, chimpanzees, and macaques using longitudinal MRI data. In my doctoral studies, I used CT and MRI data from humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas to examine structural variation and covariation in cortical surface and cranial morphology across and within species, as well as throughout postnatal development. Additionally, at the Neural Circuit Dynamics Lab in Zurich, I contributed to the automation of experimental setups for freely behaving mice and analyzed fluorescence microscopy data for neuroscience research.
Interests
- Early brain development
- Primate brain evolution
- Computational neuroimaging
- Machine learning in radiology and healthcare
Background
- 2007: BSc in Mechatronics Engineering, CETI Institute of Technology, Guadalajara, Mexico
- 2009: MSc in Robotics, Optics, and Photonics Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
- 2011: MSc in Applied Physics, TU Delft, Netherlands
- 2012-2016: Research Assistant, Computational Paleoanthropology, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- 2017-2018: Research Assistant, Laboratory of Neural Circuit Dynamics, Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- 2019: PhD in Evolutionary Biology, Life Science Zurich Graduate School, University of Zurich (degree) & ETH Zurich (dual program), Switzerland
- 2020-2021: Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Neuroimaging, Fetal Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center (FNNDSC), Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
- 2021-2023: Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Neuroimaging, MGH/HST Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, USA
Contact
E-mail: j.l.a.warren@psykologi.uio.no