Imaging the human subcortical auditory system

I’m a neuroscientist studying subcortical structures in the human brain that process sensory stimuli. I am a research assistant professor in the SoundBrain Lab at Northwestern University’s Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.

My work is funded by the NIH through an NIDCD Early Career Research Award (R21DC022906), “Auditory–motor interactions in neural processing and the frequency-following response,” (2025–2028) and a Mentored Career Development Award (K01DC019421) entitled “Investigating human non-lemniscal inferior colliculus contributions to auditory learning with 7T MRI” (2022–2027).

You can find me on Bluesky and GitHub, among other places.

I’m also a member of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping Communication Committee, serving as Committee Chair in 2023–24. I previously produced the OHBM Neurosalience podcast, and contributed to OHBM blog posts.

Connections between the human subcortical auditory structures, as estimated by diffusion-weighted MRI tractography of a post mortem sample.

A terrifying creature lurking in a T2*-weighted anatomical MRI of the same post mortem sample….