| Dr. Urs Ribary (Prof.Dr.sc.nat.ETH)
Urs Ribary was elected as the “Endowed BC Leadership Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience in Childhood Health and Development” within the Province of British Columbia (BC), Canada in 2007. He is also a Professor in Psychology at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver since 2007. The goal of this position will be to setup a coherent and internationally recognized brain imaging program in cognitive neuroscience, reaching out across different Universities, the large BC’s Children’s Hospital and the private sector.
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Urs received his doctorate degree in Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich (Switzerland) in 1985. During a visiting professorship at Simon Fraser University in Canada (1986-88), he was further trained in functional human brain imaging technologies using EEG and MEG (Electro- and Magnetoencephalography). Urs Ribary was holding a Professor faculty position in Physiology and Neuroscience at New York University Medical Center, New York from 1988-2007, and he was the former Director of the Center for Neuromagnetism (CNM), a functional brain imaging center from 1989-2005.
Urs Ribary’s main research area is brain network dynamics and functional connectivity underlying normal and altered cognitive functions. His interests relate to non-invasive structural and functional brain imaging for studying sensory-motor and cognitive processing in children and adults. The long-term goal is to relate healthy and altered perception and cognition to underlying quantified brain network connectivity using non-invasive brain imaging technologies in healthy subjects, cognitive abnormalities and in neurological and psychiatric patients. The focus will also be in the development of underlying neuronal diagnostic markers for cognitive alterations and clinical symptoms in relation to therapeutic interventions.
Urs Ribary has extensively published in many scientific/medical journals and lectured all over the world. He is also a member of numerous organizations, has served as an adhoc reviewer for several journals and funding agencies and has been an advisor to several companies and organizations.
He is also co-founder and chairman of the Samanta S. Ribary Foundation Inc., a non-profitable organization to support orphans and children in need.
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