Burke Rosen PhD

Burke Q. Rosen is a neurosciences Ph.D. candidate in the lab of Prof. Eric Halgren at UC San Diego. His research is mainly focused on how the human cortex communicates with itself. He examines the structural connections that underpin this communication using diffusion MRI and the functional correlativity that is its hallmark by compositing spontaneous activity from intracranial depth electrode recordings in hundreds of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. His hope is that a better understanding of the full map of cortical communication can be leveraged to improve non-invasive neuroimaging technologies like EEG and MEG. In addition to his primary lines of inquiry, he has some tangentially-related projects looking at the transcriptional markers of evolutionarily-recent cortical expansion and producing synthetic M/EEG, as well as an older series of work investigating acute alcohol intoxication and executive function with MEG. More broadly, he is interested in data-driven approaches to observing the human brain's structure and function as it behaves in its natural environment. He will be defending my thesis soon and am seeking a post-doctoral position.