Adam Martersteck
- PhD in neuroscience from Northwestern University in Chicago
- Position: Assistant professor at University of Chicago
About
Adam received a PhD in neuroscience from Northwestern University in Chicago, training at the Mesulam Center with Drs. Emily Rogalski and Todd Parrish, his dissertation focused on imaging in primary progressive aphasia with a side of statistical learning and successful aging.
After a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley with Dr. William Jagust on PET imaging, Adam is now an assistant professor at University of Chicago. He is the director of computational neuroimaging initiatives in the department of neurology’s Healthy Aging and Alzheimer’s Research Care Center.
Adam and his lab answer questions about structural, functional, and pathologic selective vulnerability at the intersection of frontotemporal lobar degeneration, Alzheimer disease, and aging. Leveraging recent advancements in interpretable machine learning to bridge the fields of clinical and computational neuroscience, his lab aims to unravel the complex heterogeneity in atypical dementia syndromes. When not fighting his codebase and battling disorganized files, Adam can be found drinking coffee along the Chicago lakefront or riverwalk.