Dr Slava Karolis
Slava completed his PhD in the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (University College London) where he studied the topic of number representations in the human brain. His first postdoc was in the Institute of Psychiatry (King’s College London) where, as a member of the Neurodevelopment and Mental Health Group, he was working on the characterisation of anatomical and behavioural consequences of very preterm birth from adolescence into adulthood. He then spent several months in France (Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Sorbonne) working on the atlas of brain regions that show functional hemispheric specialisation and characterising their structural connectivity. In 2018 Slava joined the developing Human Connectome Project as a member of the Analysis Group in FMRIB, Oxford, where he undertook studying signal properties of the in-utero functional MRI and developing an analytical pipeline for these data. He now continues this work as a PFIGist in the Centre for Developing Brain. His main research interest is fetal brain fMRI.