Bio — Scientific Advisory Board member

Urs Ribary, Prof.Dr.sc.nat.ETH

Urs Ribary was elected as the “Endowed BC Leadership Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience in Childhood Health and Development” within the Province of British Columbia, Canada in 2007. He is also a Professor in Psychology at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver since 2007. The goal of this position is to set up a coherent and internationally recognized brain imaging program in cognitive neuroscience, reaching out across different universities, the large BC's Children's Hospital, and the private sector.

Dr. Ribary received his doctorate degree in Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland in 1985. During a visiting professorship at Simon Fraser University in Canada (1986-88), he was further trained in functional human brain imaging technologies using EEG and MEG (Electro- and Magnetoencephalography). Urs Ribary was holding a Professor faculty position in Physiology and Neuroscience at New York University Medical Center from 1988-2007, and he was the former Director of the Center for Neuromagnetism (CNM), a functional brain imaging center from 1989-2005.

Dr. Ribary's main research area is brain network dynamics and functional connectivity underlying normal and altered cognitive functions. His interests relate to non-invasive structural and functional brain imaging for studying sensory-motor and cognitive processing in children and adults. The main focus has been on the analysis of the brain's network oscillation dynamics and functional connectivity within and among distributed networks and the development of underlying neuronal diagnostic markers for cognitive alterations and clinical symptoms in relation to therapeutic interventions. The long-term goal is to relate perception and cognition to underlying quantified brain network connectivity using non-invasive brain imaging technologies in healthy subjects, cognitive abnormalities, and in neurological and psychiatric patients.

Dr. Ribary has extensively published in many scientific/medical journals and lectured all over the world. He is also a member of numerous organizations, has served as an adhoc reviewer for several journals and funding agencies, and has been an advisor to several companies and organizations. He is also co-founder and chairman of the Samanta S. Ribary Foundation Inc., a nonprofit organization to support orphans and children in need.

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