Principal Investigator
Ideator, Creator, and Supreme Ruler of the MontiLab.
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Postdoctoral Scholar
Lord of Chaos
Working on: Using graph theory, information theory, and nonlinear dynamics to characterize what’s happening in the brain whenever it’s unconscious – be it from seizures, anesthesia, or traumatic brain injury.
Graduate Students
Alessandra Dallavecchia
Static Shock (GS in the Cognitive Neuroscience program)
Working on: My work centers around studying criticality in the brain and its potential relationship with consciousness. Specifically, I am interested in exploring large-scale neural dynamics and information processing during wakefulness, using perturbational methods such as concurrent transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography (TMS-EEG).
Zoe Lee
GS in the Cognitive Neuroscience program
Amber Hopkins
Countess of Consciousness (GS in the Cognitive Neuroscience program)
Working on: Combining non-invasive brain stimulation techniques, including TUS and TMS, with neuroimgaing methods, including MRI and EEG, to investigate how subcortical and cortical structures interact to support consciousness.
Queen of Cognition (GS in the Cognitive Neuroscience program)
Working on: Investigating mild traumatic brain injuries and cognitive impairments using MRI. Understanding the relationship of language and theory of mind processes in the Broca’s area using TMS and MRI.
Former Lab Members
Giacomo Bertazzoli, Ph.D.
Micah Johnson, Ph.D.
Evan S. Lutkenhoff, Ph.D.
Federico Micheli
Jeff Chiang, Ph.D.
John Coetzee, Ph.D.
Julia Sophia Crone, Ph.D.
Amy Zheng, Ph.D.
John Dell’Italia, Ph.D.
Josh Cain, Ph.D.
Branden Bio
MontiLab RA (Currently a graduate student at Princeton University)
Matthew Rosenberg
MontiLab RA (Currently a graduate student at CalTech)
Shawn M. Callahan
UG student at UCLA
Liz Brinson
UG student at UCLA