Rita Oliveira

Postdoctoral Fellow
Dept of Radiology, CHUV/UNIL
Email: Ana.Veiga-De-Oliveira@chuv.ch
Mailing address: Centre de Recherche en Radiologie PET3, CHUV
Rue du Bugnon 46, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
Office: PET3-02-200, Rue Pépinet 3, 1003 Lausanne, Switzerland

I obtained my degree in Biomedical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2018. During my studies, I developed a strong interest in neuroimaging techniques and the complexities of the brain. For my Master’s thesis, I worked with diffusion MRI data, focusing on the analysis of structural asymmetries between hemispheres in children with a specific type of epilepsy.
This experience motivated me to further explore brain structure, in particular microstructure, leading me to pursue a PhD focused on obtaining measures of the morphology of axons composing white matter and of deposits of iron within grey matter tissue. I moved to Lausanne to undertake this research and successfully completed my PhD in the fall of 2023. Following my PhD, I continued working in the same laboratory as a Postdoctoral researcher for an additional year, further developing my project on characterizing iron deposits in brain tissue.
In the fall of 2024, I joined Ileana Jelescu’s lab as a Postdoctoral researcher. My current work focuses on using a multimodal approach, combining diffusion MRI and diffusion magnetic resonance spectroscopy, to quantify brain microstructure in vivo through the mobility of brain metabolites.