Arthur Spencer

Postdoc
Dept of Radiology, CHUV/UNIL
Email: arthur.spencer@chuv.ch
Mailing address: Centre de Recherche en Radiologie PET3, CHUV
Rue du Bugnon 46, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
Office: PET3-02-240, Rue Pépinet 3, 1003 Lausanne, Switzerland

I obtained my MEng in Engineering Science (combined bachelor’s and master’s) from Oxford University (Oxford, UK) in 2018, during which I specialised in machine learning and mathematical techniques. My final year research project involved inferring latent membrane potentials in a simulation of the nematode C. Elegans from partial calcium imaging data; a project which I had the opportunity to continue working on during a short research assistant role at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada). At the beginning of 2023 I obtained my PhD in Translational Health Sciences from the University of Bristol (Bristol, UK). My PhD involved analysis of diffusion, functional, and anatomical MRI data in children treated for neonatal hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy at birth. I predominantly focussed on brain network analysis, investigating differences in structural and resting-state functional connectivity in this clinical cohort, as well as making methodological contributions in the fields of structural connectivity and dynamic functional connectivity analysis. My work in the Microstructure Mapping Lab as a postdoctoral researcher involves developing and validating a state-of-the-art diffusion functional MRI approach to measure activity in both grey and white matter. This approach not only has the potential to overcome the limitations of BOLD fMRI, but also offers a window into white matter function, providing unique diagnostic value for a range of neurological diseases and disorders.