Principal Investigator, Director of MEG Neuroimaging Laboratory,
McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT

Education 

• 2006: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
• 2003: M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
• 2001: B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Research Summary

Dimitrios Pantazis, who joined the McGovern Institute in 2010, is the director of the Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Laboratory within the Martinos Imaging Center at MIT.  Before moving to MIT, he was research assistant professor at the University of Southern California from 2008-2010. His research centers on novel MEG methods and multimodal imaging approaches, traditional and deep machine learning methods in neuroimaging, visual brain representations, and pathological function in neurological disorders with a focus on Alzheimer's disease. He has over 25 years of experience in developing methods for the analysis of MEG/EEG data. He is a key developer of Brainstorm, an open-source environment dedicated to the analysis of brain recordings (MEG, EEG, NIRS, ECoG, depth electrodes, animal electrophysiology). He has published articles in prominent journals including Nature Neuroscience, Nature Communications, Neuron, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, eLIFE, Cerebral Cortex, NeuroImage, Scientific Reports and others. His research has been featured in the Scientific American Mind Magazine, Boston Magazine, Technology Networks, MIT Technology Review, and Elekta’s Wavelength Magazine. His work is supported by the National Eye Institute, National institute on Aging, National Scientific Foundation, and the Jameel Clinic at MIT.