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Faculty in the team of Dr. Heidi Jacobs

Dr. Prokopis Prokopiou February 2020 - ... , (MGH, Boston, USA). Relating functional connectivity to locus coeruleus integrity. Supported by the NIH-NIA [Engineering/neuroscience]
Dr. Maxime Vanegroo, January 2020 - ...., Maastricht University (The Netherlands). "Ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging of brain structures underlying wakefulness and sleep across the lifespan" - Supported by WBI, BrightFocus, Marie Curie Sklodowska [cognitive neuroscience]
Prokopis Prokopiou, PhD
​Instructor in Radiology
Maxime Van Egroo, PhD
Senior researcher (tenured)​

Affiliated Faculty in the team of Dr. Heidi Jacobs

Dr. Nicolas Vogt MD, PhD Advanced diffusion models and Alzheimer's disease pathology. Affiliated through Hebrew Senior Life / Marcus Research Institute [Geriatrics]
Dr. Joost Riphagen MD, PhD Intersection of vascalar risk factors and neuromodulatory subcortical nuclei Affiliated through the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at MGH [Anestesiology, neuroscience]
 Nicolas Vogt, MD, PhD
Instructor in Geriatrics
Joost Riphagen, MD, PhD
​​Instructor in Radiology

Postdocs in the team of Dr. Heidi Jacobs

Dr. Marion Baillet, July 2023 - ...., (MGH, Boston, USA) , "The hypothalamus in aging and Alzheimer's disease" - Supported by the Alzheimer's Association [Neuroscience and Neuropsychopharmacology]
Dr. Elouise Koops, December 2021 - ...., (MGH, Boston, USA) Locus coeruleus metabolism and tau propagation. Supported by the NIH-NIA and the Alzheimer's Association [Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience]
Marion Baillet, PhD
Elouise Koops, PhD
Open position!

PhD-students under current supervision of Dr. Heidi Jacobs

Yuliya Patsyuk Supervised together with Dr. Maxime Van Egroo, Maastricht University, The Netherlands - Project: In vivo and ex vivo brainstem imaging in aging and Alzheimer's disease (February 2023 - ...) [Economics - Cognitive neuroscience]
Lukas Heinrich Supervised together with Dr. Prokopis Prokopiou - Project: Imaging monoaminergic systems in aging and Alzheimer's disease (July 2024 - ...) [Neuropsychology]
Yuliya Patsyuk
Lukas Heinrich

Clinical Research Coordinators
Sydney Lovelace (MGH)
​Emma Wiklund (MGH)



Sr. Clinical Trial Project Manager

Nina Engels-Dominguez MSc in Cognitive and Clinical neuroscience - neuropsychology (2019)
Nina Engels, PhD (MGH)

Bachelor and master students

Delaney Alonso (coop Northeastern University)
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Collaborators
Prof. Keith Johnson, Massachusetts General Hospital
Prof. Reisa Sperling, Massachusetts General Hospital
Prof. Julie Price, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Kenneth Kwong, Massachusetts General Hospital
Prof. Lea Grinberg, University of California San Francisco

Dr. David Salat, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Jonathan Polimeni, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Vitaly Napadow, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Marco Loggia, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Seun Johnson-Akeju, Massachusetts General Hospital
​Dr. Tarun Singhal, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Dr. Anne Berry, Brandeis University
Dr. Hwamee Oh, Brown University
​Dr. David Bennett, Rush University
Dr. Michael Sommerauer, University Hospital Cologne

Prof. Benedikt Poser, Maastricht University
Dr. Dimo Ivanov, Maastricht University
Dr. Daniel Keszthelyi, Maastricht University Medical Center
Dr. Gilles Vandewalle, University of Liege
Prof. Kamil Uludag, Health Network Toronto
​Dr. Joana Pereira, Karolinska Institute 
Prof. Sudha Seshadri, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio
Dr. Maryam Ziaei, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience Trondheim

Alumni PhD-students & Postdocs
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Kim NH Dillen (PhD Project: "The retrosplenial cortex in Alzheimer's disease", April 2012 - November 2017)
 - currently postdoctoral researcher at the University Hospital in Cologne (Germany)


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  •   Whitney Freeze (PhD Project: "Blood-brain barrier leakage in dementia", March 2015 - May 2019)
  •  - currently postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University Medical Center (G.J Gorter Center for High Field MRI) and
  •    clinical data analyst at the St-Antonius Hospital, Leiden

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Lisa Schmiedek (Müller-Ehrenberg) (PhD Project: "Mapping and modulating network breakdown in early Alzheimer's disease using transcranial electrical stimulation and MRI"; Thesis: "Episodic memory in aging and AD: a possible target for electrical stimulation", April 2015 - December 2020)
​- currently psychotherapist in Germany

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Linda Pagen (PhD Project: "Stress and worry during cognitive aging: behavioral and neural correlates", September 2017 - Augustus 2021) ​
​- currently data scientist at Central Bureau of Statistics in the Netherlands

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Nikos Priovoulos (PhD Project: "Structural and functional imaging of the locus coeruleus at 7T: from methodology to clinical application", August 2015 - January 2020) ​
-  postdoctoral researchers at Spinoza Center in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) from 2020 to 2024
​-  postdoctoral researchers at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, UK (2024-2025)
- currently Assistant Professor at the University of Maastricht, Faculty of Psychology and Neurosciences

​ Joost Riphagen  (PhD Project: "Vascular Matters in Aging and Dementia", September 2015 - January 2020)
 - currently instructor at MGH
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​Roy van Hooren  (PhD Project: "Imaging early brain characteristics of Alzheimer's disease: structure, function and symptomatology", July 2018 - December 2022)
 - currently data scientist at Central Bureau of Statistics in the Netherlands 

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​Christoph Schneider  (Postdoctoral researcher from August 2021 - December 2023) 

- currently postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bern in Switzerland.


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​Elise Beckers  (PhD Project: "From Imaging to modulating: the human locus coeruleus along healthy aging and the Alzheimer's disease continuum", October 2020 - February 2025)

 - currently requirement and risks engineer at IBA Proton Therapy


Nina Engels-Dominguez  (PhD Project: "The locus coeruleus: blueprint towards identifying preclinical Alzheimer's disease", September 2020 - February 2025)
 - currently clinical trial project manager at MGH
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Gabriel Wainstein  (Postdoctoral researcher from January 2025 till September 2025)

 - currently postdoctoral researcher and dat analyst at the University of Sydney in Australia


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​Timothy Lawn (Postdoctoral researcher from February 2024 till January 2026)

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Alumni Project managers and clinical research coordinators

Jill Grube, BS - Clinical research coordinator II 2023-2025 at MGH. Currently Medical school student at Temple University

​Haley Fenlon, BS - Clinical research coordinator II 2024 -2025 at MGH. Currently Clinical Project Associate at Relay Tx.
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​Julia Hayden, BS  - Clinical research project manager 2021-2022 at MGH. Currently Medical school student at University of Massachusetts.

Truley Juneau, MSc - Clinical research coordinator III 2022-2024 at MGH. Currently JD Candidate at South Texas College of Law Houston

​Courtney Maa, MSc - Clinical research coordinator 2022 at MGH. Currently senior project manager at the Harvard Aging Brain Study.

Lindsay Smegal, BS - Clinical research coordinator III. 2021 - 2023 at MGH. Currently graduate student at the Clinical Psychology program of Georgia State University


Former bachelor and master students
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Seher Abassi 
​Mia Antunovic

Maartje Bekker
Shelby Braig
Janina Buch
Aafke Bus
Kylie Considine 

Maartje De Vries
Franziska Dieckmann
​Nina Engels
​Janou Joosten
Selina Mueller
​Jos Kanning
Gülizar Kaya
​Luqman Khan
Ruth Kremser
Eva Köster
Wouter Kroot
René Lattmann

Helen Lückmann (Mayrrhofer)
Luisa Mang
​Nilani Markandu
​Brooke McConaghy
Mark Meessen
Nina Nolfo
Lea Flitsch


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​Nora Oehler
​Jennifer Pahl
​Manuela Pietzuch
​Federico Presi
Chantalle Razat
​Dennis Roekx
​​Jona Schebesta

Lisa Senden
​Charissa Simon
Roshni Singh
Julia Standaert
Hannah Strandell Simpson
​Kim Stehouwer
​Emerson Takata
Cleo Thijssen
​Stan van Boxel
​Jolien van der Velden
Annerieke van Laarhoven
Lotte Vogels
Niky Vogt
Nadine Vohrmann
Svenja Wiese
Ann-Kathrin Wilden
Astrid Witters
​Floor Wouters

​Rosita Zeguers

​Dr. Heidi Jacobs, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Boston, USA
Email: hjacobs(AT)mgh.harvard.edu
Maastricht University , School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Alzheimer Center Limburg, Maastricht, the Netherlands
Email: h.jacobs(AT)maastrichtuniversity.nl

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