Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli
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ABD., Mathematics
Ph.D., Psychology/Neuroscience
Harvard Medical School
Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli | |
|---|---|
| Occupations | Psychologist/Neuroscientist, and Academic |
| Academic background | |
| Education | B.A., Biophysics/Physics ABD., Mathematics Ph.D., Psychology/Neuroscience |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Northeastern University Harvard Medical School |
Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli is an American scientist, psychologist/neuroscientist, academic and researcher. She is a professor of psychology, the Founding Director of the Biomedical Imaging Center at Northeastern University,[1] Researcher in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and a Research Affiliate of McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2]
Whitfield-Gabrieli's research is focused on the working of the human brain, its development from childhood through adult maturity, the brain's working in neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders, and the translation of neuroscience knowledge into treatments. She is involved in the development of neuroimaging analysis methods and software packages including CONN,[3] REX, and ART.[4]
Whitfield-Gabrieli studied at University of California, Berkeley (UCB) and completed her bachelor's degree in Biophysics/Physics and her ABD (All But Dissertation) degree in Mathematics in 1988 and 1993, respectively. She received her second Doctoral degree in Psychology/Neuroscience from UCB in 2017.[2]
Career
Whitfield-Gabrieli started as a Research Associate and Teaching Assistant at UC Berkeley during the late 1980s and the early 1990s. She was then associated with EEG Systems Laboratory as a Research Associate from 1993 till 1996 and later as a Project Manager till 1998. She was appointed as a Science and Engineering Associate in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology from 1998 to 2005. In 2005, she was appointed by McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT as a Research Scientist and was promoted to Principal Research Scientist in 2017. She then joined Northeastern University as a professor of Psychology[1] and as Founding Director of the Northeastern University Biomedical Imaging Center (NUBIC)[5] and joined the Department of Psychiatry at MGH, Harvard Medical School in 2022.[6]