Amina Burgess

I am a PhD student at the Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging, working under the supervision of Dr. Serge Dumoulin and Dr. Wietske van der Zwaag. My project focuses on exploring structural and functional brain differences in autism between males and females. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University with a focus on neuroengineering, and I have experience at the VA Boston Healthcare Brain Bank researching CTE and PTSD. I also worked as a lab manager at Brown University while concurrently completing my Master’s in Biomedical Engineering there. My thesis involved developing a computational tool using graph theory in Wolfram Mathematica to map dense neuronal networks in 3D cortical microtissues.