Cohen, Mark

Director, Neuroengineering Training Program

Professor, Neurology

Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences

Staglin Center for Cognitive Neuroscience

Professor In-Residence, Cognitive Psychology

Member, Brain Research Institute

California NanoSystems Institute

Neuroscience GPB Home Area

Physics & Biology in Medicine GPB Home Area

Biography

Dr. Cohen received his undergraduate training in both engineering at MIT and biology at Stanford. His graduate work at the Rockefeller University concerned hormonally-modulated electrical signaling. He worked in the private sector from 1985 to 1990 developing applications and technology of magnetic resonance imaging, before accepting a faculty appointment at Harvard, where he directed the high-speed MR imaging laboratory, and ultimately contributing to the development of functional MRI performing seminal experiments in this field. Since arriving at UCLA in 1993 he has focused his work on applications and technologies of neuroimaging, and more recently, has been working toward the development of low-cost high performance MRI devices based on novel technologies adopted from low temperature physics.