Maria Giulia Preti

Maria Giulia Preti is a Senior Scientist at MIPLAB, Research Staff Scientist at the CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging (Switzerland), and a Lecturer (Maître-Assistante) at the University of Geneva. She holds a PhD in Bioengineering from Politecnico di Milano (2013) and completed postdoctoral research in Dimitri Van De Ville’s group at EPFL. Her work focuses on integrating neuroimaging techniques (fMRI, DTI, EEG, fNIRS) with graph signal processing to study brain function-structure relationships in health and disease. Key clinical applications include Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, and stroke. She has pioneered methods like groupwise fMRI-guided tractography to study neurodegenerative pathologies.

Education:

• PhD in Bioengineering (2013), Politecnico di Milano
• MSc in Biomedical Engineering (2009), Politecnico di Milano
• BSc in Biomedical Engineering (2007), Politecnico di Milano

Research emphasizes multimodal neuroimaging integration and computational neuroscience. Notable achievements include developing connectome embedding techniques and demonstrating brain fingerprinting via spectral signatures. She received the Progetto Rocca fellowship (2011) supporting her work at MIT/Harvard Medical School. Ongoing projects investigate structure-function coupling dynamics, drowsiness markers, and DBS mechanisms in depression.

Labs/Teams: MIP:Lab (part of the Van De Ville group at EPFL and University of Geneva collaborations).