Bio

Laura Lewis is the Athinoula A. Martinos Associate Professor in the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, and Associate Faculty at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital. She completed a B.Sc. in Cognitive Science at McGill University, a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at MIT, and postdoctoral research in biomedical imaging in the Harvard Society of Fellows and the Martinos Center. Her research develops multimodal approaches for imaging the human brain, and applies them to study the neural circuitry that controls sleep, and the consequences of sleep for brain health. Her research has been recognized with awards such as the Pew Biomedical Scholar Award, the Searle Scholar Award, the McKnight Scholar Award, and the Sloan Fellowship.