Sustainability of Research Infrastructure

Dr. Pernet is a senior scientist with interested in open science (data sharing with OpenNeuroPET; data standards with BIDS; best practices with the OHBM COBIDAS; practical ethics with the Open Brain Consent), and neuroimaging methods (preprocessing pipelines, QC, statistics) for clinical applications (brain tumours, dementia). Dr Pernet obtained a PhD in Cognitive Neuropsychology from the University of Toulouse III in France in 2004. He was then working with Prof. JF Demonet and Dr P Celsis on neurodevelopmental disorders using MRI, functional MRI and EEG. He next obtained a post-doc fellowship from the Fyssen Foundation to work in Finland with Prof. R. Salmelin on reading using MEG. He moved to the UK in 2006, working in Glasgow with Prof. B. Belin as post-doc research assistant, working on auditory (voice) processing using fMRI and EEG. He joined the Brain Research Imaging Center, Edinburgh in 2007, as fMRI lead for SINAPSE (Scottish Imaging Network A Platform for Scientific Excellence) and became Senior Research Fellow & functional imaging scientific leader for Edinburgh Imaging in 2015. In 2021, he joined the Neurobiology Research Unit in Copenhagen, coordinating the development of OpenNeuroPET.

The main focus of Jeanette Hällgren Kotaleski’s research is the use of modeling and simulations to understand the neural mechanisms underlying information processing and learning in the brain. The research spans multiple biological scales, from large-scale simulations of cellular-level neural networks down to kinetic models—systems biology approaches—of molecular and cellular processes. Interdisciplinary collaborations with experimental laboratories, both nationally and internationally, have been and continue to be essential to this work. Jeanette Hällgren Kotaleski has extensive experience in training cross-disciplinary students and postdoctoral researchers, in addition to collaborating closely with experimentalists. Her current research group includes doctoral students and postdocs/senior researchers divided between CST/EECS at KTH and the Department of Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet (KI). In parallel, she works closely with the International Neuroinformatics Coordination Facility, promoting FAIR principles within the neuroscience community. At present, she is also coordinating the establishment of EBRAINS-Sweden, part of EBRAINS—the research infrastructure for brain science that emerged from the EU’s Human Brain Project (HBP). At KTH, she serves as one of the principal investigators of collaborative projects within the SeRC and Digital Futures frameworks.

Mathew Birdsall Abrams, PhD, MPH is Director of Science and Training at the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF), a global organization dedicated to open, FAIR, and citable neuroscience. Mathew is a neuroscientist with over 25 years of experience in both experimental neuroscience and clinical psychiatry, as well as 12 years of experience in community coordination, community building, and product development in neuroinformatics. Mathew has worked with the infrastructure developers of the world’s large scale brain initiatives (BRAIN Initiative in US, Human Brain Project in Europe, Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform, and Brain/MINDS in Japan). He also holds Positions of Trust in many neuroscience societies (e.g. SfN, FUN, FENS, and IBRO). Mathew conducted his doctoral thesis research at Tulane University and Karolinska Institutet, obtained his MPH in Health Systems Management at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and completed his undergraduate education at the University of Richmond.