Juan Zhou PhD

Dr. Juan (Helen) Zhou is an Assistant professor at the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Program at Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School, Singapore. She is also a principal investigator at the Clinical Imaging Research Center, A*STAR and National University of Singapore. Prior to joining Duke-NUS in 2011, Helen was an associate research scientist in the Child Study Centre, New York University. She did a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at the Memory and Aging Centre, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, from 2008 to 2010. Helen received her Bachelor degree in Computer Science in 2003 and Ph.D. in Neuroimaging in 2007 from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is the recipient of the undergraduate scholarship from Ministry of Education, Singapore (1998-2003) and the nominee for Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal and the Institution of Engineers Singapore Gold Medal, Singapore in 2004. Helen received research funding from National Medical Research Council, Biomedical Research Council and National Research Foundation, Singapore as well as the Royal Society, UK. Her research focuses on the network-based vulnerability hypothesis in disease. Her lab studies the human neural bases of cognitive functions and the associated vulnerability patterns in aging and neuropsychiatric disorders using multimodal neuroimaging methods (MRI/fMRI/DTI/EEG) and psychophysical techniques.