Sepideh Sadaghiani

Sepideh is interested in the brain's intrinsic functional organization and "self-control" over its own neural activity. Her graduate research at NeuroSpin, Paris, and the Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tubingen, Germany, investigated the impact of intrinsic brain activity on the variability of human behavior. She continued pursuing this passion with a stronger focus on large-scale brain networks underlying cognitive control in the D'Esposito lab at UC Berkeley (2010-2014). Sepideh joined the FIND lab early 2015 were she extended her investigation of these cognitive control networks to the field of genetics. Sepideh is now an assitant professor at the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign