Lijing Xin

Lijing Xin is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics and a research staff scientist at the Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM) at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. She teaches courses on Biomedical Imaging and Translational MR Neuroimaging, while also contributing to academic administration.

• PhD in Physics (2010, EPFL)
• Master's Project (2002-2005) on MRI instrumentation

Her research focuses on high-field magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and MRI for studying brain function and neurological diseases. She develops novel acquisition and quantification methods for ¹H, ¹³C, and ³¹P nuclei, particularly on 7T clinical platforms. Her work bridges preclinical and clinical research, with collaborations in psychiatry to explore pathophysiology and biomarkers for disorders like schizophrenia and mood disorders.

Recent publications include studies on epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease, brain energy metabolism, and neurochemical profiling using advanced MRS and deep learning for psychosis classification. She has contributed to RF coil design, macromolecule suppression, and metabolic pathway analysis across multiple disciplines.

She advises PhD students and collaborates on interdisciplinary projects involving neuroimaging hardware, metabolic disease research, and psychiatric biomarker identification. Her lab at EPFL CIBM-AIT develops cutting-edge techniques for high-resolution brain metabolism analysis and clinical translation.