On the 27th of May 2025, the CIBM Breakfast & Science Seminar 50, was given by Jonathan Wirsich, from the CIBM MRI UNIGE Cognitive and Affective Neuroimaging Section and CISA Swiss Center for Affecitve Sciences. The event was chaired by Marzia De Lucia, Head, CIBM EEG CHUV -UNIL Computational Electrical Neuroimaging Section.
Mapping the brain with multimodal EEG-fMRI and dMRI
Abstract
While structural connections provide an underlying backbone for functional communication, functional connectivity is much more dynamic than the largely static brain anatomy. The interactions between functional brain dynamics and brain structure are not fully understood. The goal of this research is a more comprehensive understanding of the relationship between anatomical structure and dynamic function at the macroscale network−level in order to better characterize brain function. This presentation will show how to derive fused graph representations of the brain from three modalities to access function and structure non−invasively by using functional resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalogram (EEG) and diffusion MRI.
Jonathan Wirsich
About the speaker
Jonathan Wirsich completed his M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2013 and obtained a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Aix-Marseille University (CRMBM, Prof. Maxime Guye) in 2016. From 2016 to 2018, Jonathan was Postdoc in the CONNECTlab (Beckman Institute, Prof. Sepideh Sadaghiani) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and in 2019, he became a research scientist in the Epilepsy and Brain Networks group (Prof. Serge Vulliémoz) at the Geneva University Hospitals.
Appointed by CISA in March 2023, Jonathan Wirsich is research staff scientist and the 3T MRI operational manager in the CIBM MRI UNIGE Cognitive and Affective Neuroimaging Section.
His research focuses on fusion of multimodal data such as simultaneous EEG-fMRI and diffusion MRI to better understand the dynamic and static properties of whole-brain networks. Within the CIBM, he is happy to share his passion for multimodal neuroimaging and open science in the context of cognitive neuroscience, by supporting scientists from experiment setup to data analysis.