Dr. Gabriel Ramos Llorden is an instructor at Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Medical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston. He received an M.Sc. in telecommunications engineering from the University of Valladolid, Spain (2012) and a PhD in Medical Physics, focused on in vivo human brain quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) relaxometry, from the University of Antwerp, Belgium (2018). From 2018 to 2020, he was a research fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, conducting research on ultra-high resolution diffusion MRI to image human deep-brain circuitry involved in psychiatric disorders. He moved to Martinos Center in 2020 to work in image acquisition and reconstruction within the BRAIN Initiative-funded project “Connectome 2.0: developing the next-generation human MRI scanner for bridging studies of the micro-, meso-, and macro-connectome”. He is a junior fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Dr. Ramos Llorden’s interests are in developing and validating novel in vivo MRI imaging technology to extract quantitative information about human brain function and structure. The ultimate goal is to advance our understanding and treatment of neurological disorders that affect humans daily.
For his K99/R00 award, Dr. Ramos Llorden will develop and validate advanced functional MRI and ultra-high-gradient strength in vivo diffusion MRI strategies to map the microstructural dynamics of the human hippocampus during spatial memory encoding and retrieval. Medical applications may include early markers of memory impairment in living humans.