Ludovica Griffanti

Ludovica Griffanti is an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford within the Department of Psychiatry. She serves as a Research Member of the Common Room and an NIHR Senior Research Fellow, focusing on translating neuroimaging research into clinical practice.

• Key Affiliations: Oxford Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (OxCIN), NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (OH-BRC), Oxford Brain Health Clinic, FSL Development Group.

Research Interests center on neuroimaging methods, particularly MRI, applied to ageing, dementia, neurodegeneration, and vascular diseases. Her work includes:

• Developing automated MRI analysis tools for clinical settings
• Harmonizing MRI-derived measures across studies
• Studying cholinergic pathways in Parkinson’s and Lewy body disease
• Investigating multimorbidity and dementia risk trajectories

Recent Publications highlight advances in hippocampus segmentation, cerebral microbleed detection, and UK Biobank adaptations for memory clinics. She collaborates extensively on machine learning-driven MRI analysis and multi-site harmonization projects.

Awards:

• NIHR Senior Research Fellowship
• Alzheimer's Association Research Fellowship

Teaching & Training: Lecturer for Oxford's MSc programs, coordinator of the Oxford Clinical Neuroimaging Course, and faculty member for the FSL Course and Alzheimer's Imaging Consortium workshops.