Dr. Jakob Seidlitz is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where his research falls at the intersection of neuroscience and genetics. He received his Ph.D. in clinical neuroscience (psychiatry) at the University of Cambridge, where he spent half his time at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded by the NIH-Oxford/Cambridge scholars program.
His specialties are in medical image data processing and analytics, graph theory and statistical modeling, quantitative biological morphometrics, and bioinformatics. His research has appeared in top international academic journals, such as Science and Neuron, and he has co-authored more than 40 related scientific publications as an early-career researcher.