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Brain Connectomics: Network science for brain data
Brain Connectomics is a rapidly growing area of research. It is based on the investigation of functional and structural connections in the human brain, modeled as networks. Structural connections between brain region pairs are modeled from diffusion-weighted imaging data, normally denominated as structural connectome or structural connectivity. Functional connections are modeled from functional magnetic resonance imaging data, by measuring temporal statistical dependences between brain region pairs, usually defined as functional connectivity or functional connectome.
The analysis of brain networks has recently risen thanks to the development of new imaging acquisition methods as well as new tools from graph theory and dynamical systems. Examining human brain connectivity data offers new insights on how the integration and segregation of information in the brain relates to human behavior, and how this organization may be altered in neurological diseases and disorders.
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I am always on the lookout for funding opportunities to hire enthusiastic PhD students/Postdocs. If you would like to join the lab or if you are looking for collaborations/co-supervision, please send me an email.
- Our signal processing perspective on Brain Fingerprinting is now out in IEEE! Link to the paper here
- Congrats to Krishna for submitting his Master thesis “Unmixing the Psychedelic Connectome: Brain Network Traits of Psilocybin”! Preprint here
- Enrico to speak at the UK Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop on December 16
- PhD studentships available in my lab for 2026! More info here [UK home students preferred]. Please contact me if interested in applying.
- Enrico to speak at the International School on Magnetic Resonance and Brain Function (Erice, Italy, 24th-29th of October 2025). More info here.
- Enrico to speak at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS25). More info here.
- Latest one out in Nature Human Behaviour! “General anaesthesia decreases the uniqueness of brain functional connectivity across individuals and species.” Congrats to Andrea Luppi for leading this international collaboration!
- Latest one out in Nature Communications! “Higher-order connectomics of human brain function reveals local topological signatures of task decoding, individual identification, and behavior.” Congrats to Andrea Santoro for leading this work! News coverage here
- Enrico to speak at the MEG UKI conference. More info here
- One PhD opening in the lab (starting date: September 2025)! You can find more info here
- Latest one out in Communications Biology! “Fingerprints of brain disease: connectome identifiability in Alzheimer’s disease”. Congrats to Sara Stampacchia for leading this work!
- We are moving! The lab will relocate to the University of Birmingham, at the School of Mathematics and CHBH in September! New PhD openings coming soon..
- AMICO Lab fully represented at NetSci 2024! We have got one talk at the TopoNets satellite and two talks at the Network Neuroscience satellite.
- Enrico to speak at the University of Nottingham on March 26th. More info here.
- Enrico to speak at the University of Birmingham on March 21st. More info here.
- New lab preprint out! “Higher-order connectomics of human brain function reveals local topological signatures of task decoding, individual identification, and behavior”. You can check it out here.
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