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Postdocs in the team of Dr. Heidi Jacobs

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 and BrightFocus [cognitive neuroscience]
Dr. Christoph Schneider August 2021 - ... , (MGH, Boston, USA). Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation, locus coeruleus activity and memory. Supported by the NIH-NIA [Mathematics/neuroengineering/ neuroscience]
Dr. Elouise Koops, December 2021 - ...., (MGH, Boston, USA) Locus coeruleus metabolism and tau propagation. Supported by the NIH-NIA [Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience]
Maxime Van Egroo, PhD
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Christoph Schneider, PhD
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Elouise Koops, PhD
Dr. Prokopis Prokopiou February 2020 - ... , (MGH, Boston, USA). Relating functional connectivity to locus coeruleus integrity. Supported by the NIH-NIA [Engineering/neuroscience]
Dr. Joost Riphagen, January 2020 - .... , Maastricht University (Netherlands) Vascular changes contributing to locus coeruleus pathology [medicine / anesthesiology]
Prokopis Prokopiou, PhD
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Joost Riphagen, MD, PhD
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PhD-students under current supervision of Dr. Heidi Jacobs

Nina Engels-Dominguez Supervised together with Prof. Frans RJ Verhey, Maastricht University, The Netherlands & Yakeel Quiroz, MGH, Boston, USA - Project: Brainstem properties in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease (September 2020 - ...) [neuropsychology].
Elise Beckers Supervised together with Prof. Frans RJ Verhey, Maastricht University, The Netherlands & Dr. Gilles Vandewalle, Liege University, Belgium - Project: Boosting a neuromodulatory system relevant to Alzheimer’s disease to enhance memory (October 2020 - ...) [biomedical engineering]
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]
Nina Engels
Elise Beckers
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Yuliya Patsyuk

Clinical Research Coordinators
Truley Juneau (MGH)
​Lindsay Smegal (MGH)
​Emma Wiklund (MGH)
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Project manager

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Nina Engels, MSc (MGH)

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

Bachelor and master students
Lukas Heinrich (MGH)
Janou Joosten (UM)
Nilani Markandu (UM)
​Roshni Singh (MGH - Northeastern coop)
Julia Standaert (UM)

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. Tarun Singhal, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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
Prof. Sudha Seshadri, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio

Alumni PhD-students
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Kim NH Dillen (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 (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) (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 (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 (Project: "Structural and functional imaging of the locus coeruleus at 7T: from methodology to clinical application", August 2015 - January 2020) ​
​- currently postdoctoral researchers at the Spinoza Center in Amsterdam (the Netherlands)

​ Joost Riphagen  (Project: "Vascular Matters in Aging and Dementia", September 2015 - January 2020)
 - currently postdoctoral researcher in our group 
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​Roy van Hooren
 (Project: "Imaging early brain characteristics of Alzheimer's disease: structure, function and symptomatology", July 2018 - December 2022)
 - currently postdoctoral researcher in our group 


Alumni Project managers and clinical research coordinators

Julia Hayden, BS  - Clinical research project manager 2021-2022 at MGH. Currently Medical student at University of Massachusetts.

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

Former bachelor and master students
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Maartje Bekker
Shelby Braig
Janina Buch
Aafke Bus

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

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


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Nora Oehler
​Jennifer Pahl
​Manuela Pietzuch
​Federico Presi
Chantalle Razat
​Dennis Roekx
Lisa Senden
​Charissa Simon
Hannah Strandell Simpson
​Kim Stehouwer
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
​Rosita Zeguers

​Dr. Heidi Jacobs, PhD

Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Gordon Center for Medical 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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