Dr Ludovica Griffanti
Is an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford.
She is a researcher at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN), passionate about making research translational and applicable in clinical settings. Her current project aims to translate research knowledge and quantitative measurements from brain MRI in memory clinic through the Oxford Brain Health Centre. Griffanti is involved in projects that aim to develop image analysis tools for clinical applications and to harmonise MRI-derived measures across sites/studies.
She is a member of the Translational Neuroimaging Group (TNG) and collaborate on studies on brain MRI analysis in ageing, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and vascular disease, looking for early signs of dementia and neurodegeneration. She is also co-lead of the Dementias Platform UK (DPUK) Work Package 22: Image processing pipelines. As a member of the WIN Analysis group she is also involved in the development of methodological approaches for structural MRI (automated lesions segmentation) and resting state fMRI (artefact removal and reproducibility assessments) part of the FSL image analysis software package. Griffanti completed her undergraduate studies and a PhD in Bioengineering at Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy) before moving to University of Oxford as a postdoctoral researcher and then Alzheimer’s Association Research Fellow.