CURRICULUM VITAE ROSALYN J MORAN PhD

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PROFESSIONAL
HISTORY
Assistant Professor
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute,
Virginia Polytechnic & State University
Roanoke, VA, USA
ROSALYN J MORAN PHD
Feb 2014
Nov 2012 - Present
Assistant Professor
Nov 2012 - Present
Bradley Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Virginia Polytechnic & State University
Blacksburg, VA, USA
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Roanoke, VA, USA
EDUCATION
May 2013 - Present
Senior Research Associate
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
Institute of Neurology
University College London
London, UK
Jan 2010 – Oct 2012
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
Institute of Neurology
University College London
London, UK
Oct 2007 - Jan 2010
PhD Electronic Engineering
2004 - 2007 (Viva Voce, Jan 2008)
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences
University College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
Bachelor of Engineering (Electronic) First Class Honours
2000 - 2004
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences
University College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
RESEARCH
DOMAINS
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
Computational Neuroscience, Advanced (model-based) Neuroimaging Analysis Methods – Dynamic Causal
Modeling, Bayesian Statistics, Biophysics, Nonlinear Dynamics, Aging, Neurodegenerative Disease, Brain
Connectivity, Theoretical Neurobiology.
Scientific Advisor: Postdoctoral Associates: Dr Jessica Gilbert (VTCRI), Dr Wynn Legon (VTCRI), Dr Jian
Li (Peking University, visiting professor VTCRI).
Medical Students: Mr Ehsan Dowlati, Mr Steven Punzell (VTCSoM).
Pre-doctoral Associate: Ms Stephanie Bowen (UCL)
Graduate Research Coordinator: Ms Sarah Adams (VTCRI)
Previous Students: Mr Thomas Gizbert (2012, MSc Neuroscience, UCL). Dr. Filippo Cona, (Intern advisor,
2012, PhD, Engineering, University of Bologna). Mr Hans Ludwig Melo (2011, MSc Cognitive and Decision
Sciences UCL).
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ROSALYN J MORAN PHD
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Member of Qualifying Exam Committee, for Ms. Qing Sun, VT ECE Graduate Student. Supervisor Dr.
Guoqiang Yu.
Member of PhD Committee, for Ms. Elizabeth Davenport, Medical Imaging Graduate Student, Virginia Tech
- Wake Forest University
Scientific Reviewer: Neuroimage, PloS Computational Biology, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of
Neurophysiology, Neuropsychopharmacology, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, Physica D,
Biological Cybernetics, Frontiers in Neuroscience. Ad-hoc Reviewer: Medical Research Council UK, National
Science Foundation US. The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
Adjunct Faculty Appointment, 12-2013, Lieber Institute for Brain Development & Maltz Research
Laboratories, Johns Hopkins Medical Campus, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Honorary Fellow 2013, Translational Neuromodelling Unit, Zurich University & ETH, Zurich,
Switzerland.
Visiting Fellow (2006-2007), Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology,
University College London, London, UK (mentor: Prof. Karl J. Friston).
Visiting Fellow (2005-2006), Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, New York State Office of
Mental Health, Orangeburg, New York (mentor: Prof. John J. Foxe).
Technology Transfer: Patent Holder, Automated Voice Analysis System for Pathology Detection, US Patent
Office.
Finalist (one of four) Institute of Engineers Ireland (IEI) Biomedical Research Medal
2005.
Campus Company Development Award, Program winner, NOVA Technology Transfer Centre, University
College Dublin, 2005.
CORD feasibility grant, Enterprise Ireland, 2005.
Co-Author: Statistical Parametric Mapping, software package (2007 – Present).
Convenor: Institute of Neurology (UCL), short-course on the Free Energy Principle, July 2012.
Outreach: Lecture to general public on “Information processing in the Brain”, VTCRI, Brain Awareness
Week, March 2013.
Interview with WTF Radio (NPR) Virginia, “Sharpening the Brain’s Performance”
(http://wvtf.org/post/sharpening-brains-performance), June 2013.
Interview with The Roanoker Magazine, September 2013.
Departmental Service:
Co-Director: Core Course Track on Aging, Development & Repair (Director of Aging) Translational
Biology, Medicine, and Health PhD Program at Virginia Tech.
Member: Development committee for new PhD program Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health
at Virginia Tech, Faculty of Health Sciences.
Member: Admissions Committee, TBMH.
Member: Organization committee for Distinguished Scholar Series at VTCRI.
1.
JOURNAL
Kahan J, Urner M, Moran R, Fladin G, Marrieros A, Laura Mancini, Mark White, John Thornton, Tarek
Yousry, Ludvic Zrinzo, Marwan Hariz, Patricia Limousin, Karl Fiston, Tom Foltynie. (2014) Resting state
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ROSALYN J MORAN PHD
Feb 2014
fMRI in Parkinson’s disease: impact of deep brain stimulation on effective connectivity. Brain, doi:
10.1093/brain/awu027.
PUBLICATIONS
2.
Moran RJ, Symmonds M, Dolan RJ, Friston KJ. (2014) The Brain Ages Optimally To Model its
Environment: Evidence from Sensory Learning over the Adult Lifespan. PLoS Computational Biology,
10, 1 e1003422.
3.
Muthukumaraswamy S, Carhart-Harris R, Moran R, Brookes M, Williams T, Erritzoe D, Sessa B,
Papadopoulos A, Bolstridge M, Singh K, Fielding A, Friston K, Nutt D. (2013) Broadband cortical
desynchronisation underlies the human psychedelic state. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(38) 1517115183.
4. Symmonds M, Moran RJ, Wright ND, Bossaerts P, Barnes G, Dolan RJ. (2013) The chronometry of risk
processing in the human cortex. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 7, 146. PMID: 22036801, PMCID:
PMC3272083.
5. Moran RJ, Campo P, Symmonds M, Stephan KE, Dolan RJ, Friston KJ. (2013) Free Energy, Precision
and Learning: The Role of Cholinergic Neuromodulation. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(19): 8227-8236.
PMID: 23658161.
6. Jung F, Stephan KE, Backes H, Moran R, Gramer M, Kumagai T, Graf R, Endepols H, Tittgemeyer M.
(2013) Mismatch Responses in the Awake Rat: Evidence from Epidural Recordings of Auditory Cortical
Fields. PLoS ONE, 8(4): e63203. PMID: 23646197, PMCID: PMC3639961.
7. Moran R, Pinotsis D, Friston K. (2013) Neural masses and fields in dynamic causal modelling. Frontiers
in Computational Neuroscience, 7(57):1-12. PMID: 23755005, PMCID: PMC3664834.
8. Friston K, Moran R, Seth AK. (2013) Analysing connectivity with Granger causality and dynamic causal
modelling. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 23(2):172-8. PMID: 23265964.
9. Marreiros AC, Cagnan H, Moran RJ, Friston KJ, Brown P. (2013) Basal ganglia-cortical interactions in
Parkinsonian patients. Neuroimage, 66:301-10. PMID: 23153964, PMCID: PMC3573233.
10. Campo P, Garrido MI, Moran RJ, García-Morales I, Poch C, Toledano R, Gil-Nagel A, Dolan RJ, Friston
KJ. (2013) Network reconfiguration and working memory impairment in mesial temporal lobe
epilepsy. Neuroimage, 15(72):48-54. PMID: 23370058, PMCID: PMC3610031.
11. Boly M, Moran RJ, Murphy M, Boveroux P, Bruno M-A, Noirhomme Q, Ledoux D, Bonhomme V,
Brichant J-F, Tononi G, Laureys S, Friston KJ. (2012) Connectivity changes underlying spectral EEG
changes during propofol-induced loss of consciousness. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(20):7082-90.
PMID: 22593076, PMCID: PMC3366913.
12. Friston KJ, Bastos A, Litvak V, Stephan KE, Fries P, Moran RJ. (2012). DCM for complex data: crossspectra, coherence and phase-delays. Neuroimage, 59:439-55. PMID: 21820062, PMCID:
PMC3200431.
13. Campo P, Garrido M, Moran R, Maestú F, García-Morales I, Gil-Nagel A, del Pozo F, Dolan R, Friston K.
(2012) Remote effects of hippocampal sclerosis on effective connectivity during working memory
encoding: a case of connectional diaschisis? Cerebral Cortex, 22(6):1225-1236. PMID: 21810779,
PMCID: PMC3357177.
14. Friston KJ, Shiner T, Fitzgerald T, Galea JM, Adams R, Brown H, Dolan RJ, Moran R, Stephan KE,
Bestmann S. (2012) Dopamine, affordance and active inference. PLoS Computational Biology,
8(1):e1002327. PMID: 22241972, PMCID: PMC3252266.
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15. Pinotsis DA, Moran RJ, Friston KJ. (2012) Dynamic causal modeling with neural fields. Neuroimage,
59:1261-74. PMID: 21924363, PMCID: PMC3236998.
16. Woodhead ZVJ, Barnes GR, Penny W, Moran R, Teki S, Price CJ, Leff AP. (2012) Reading front to back:
MEG evidence for early feedback effects during word recognition. Cerebral Cortex. PMID: 23172772.
17. Moran RJ, Symmonds M, Stephan KE, Friston KJ, Dolan RJ. (2011) An in vivo assay of synaptic function
mediating human cognition. Current Biology, 21(15):1320-1325. PMID: 21802302, PMCID:
PMC3153654.
18. Moran RJ, Mallet N, Litvak V, Dolan RJ, Magill PJ, Friston KJ, Brown P. (2011) Alterations in brain
connectivity underlying beta oscillations in Parkinsonism. PLoS Computational Biology,
7(8):e1002124. PMID: 21852943, PMCID: PMC3154892.
19. Moran RJ, Jung F, Kumagai T, Endepols H, Graf R, Dolan RJ, Friston KJ, Stephan KE, Tittgemeyer M.
(2011) Dynamic causal models and physiological inference: a validation study using isoflurane
anaesthesia in rodents. PLoS One, 6(8):e22790. PMID: 21829652, PMCID: PMC3149050.
20. Moran RJ, Stephan KE, Dolan RJ, Friston KJ. (2011) Consistent Spectral Predictors for Dynamic Causal
Models of Steady State Responses. Neuroimage, 55(4):1694-1708. PMID: 21238593, PMCID:
PMC3093618.
21. Moran RJ, Campo P, Maestu F, Reilly RB, Dolan RJ, Strange BA. (2010) Peak frequency in the theta
and alpha bands correlates with human working memory capacity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience,
11;4:200. PMID: 21206531, PMCID: PMC3009479.
22. Stephan KE, Penny WD, Moran RJ, den Ouden HE, Daunizeau J, Friston KJ. (2010) Ten simple rules for
dynamic causal modeling. Neuroimage, 49(4):3099-3109. PMID: 19914382, PMCID: PMC2825373.
23. Moran RJ, Stephan KE, Seidenbecher T, Pape HC, Dolan RJ, Friston KJ. (2009) Dynamic causal models
of steady-state responses. Neuroimage, 44(3):796-811. PMID: 19000769, PMCID: PMC2644453.
24. Kiebel SJ, Garrido MI, Moran R, Chen CC, Friston KJ. (2009) Dynamic causal modeling for EEG and
MEG. Human Brain Mapping, 30(6 Sp. Iss. SI):1866-1876. PMID: 19360734.
25. Stephan KE, Tittgemeyer M, Knösche TR, Moran RJ, Friston KJ. (2009) Tractography-based priors for
dynamic causal models. Neuroimage, 47(4):1628-1638. PMID: 19523523, PMCID: PMC2728433.
26. Stephan KE, Penny WD, Daunizeau J, Moran RJ, Friston KJ. (2009) Bayesian model selection for group
studies. Neuroimage, 46(4):1004-1017. PMID: 19306932, PMCID: PMC2703732.
27. Moran RJ, Stephan KE, Kiebel SJ, Rombach N, O'Connor WT, Murphy KJ, Reilly RB, Friston KJ. (2008)
Bayesian estimation of synaptic physiology from the spectral responses of neural masses.
Neuroimage, 2(1):272-284. PMID: 18515149, PMCID: PMC2644419.
28. Moran RJ, Molholm S, Reilly RB, Foxe JJ. (2008) Changes in effective connectivity of human superior
parietal lobule under multisensory and unisensory stimulation. European Journal of Neuroscience,
27(9): 2303-2312. PMID: 18445221.
29. Kiebel SJ, Garrido MI, Moran RJ, Friston KJ. (2008) Dynamic causal modelling for EEG and MEG.
Cognitive Neurodynamics, 2(2): 121-136. PMID: 19003479, PMCID: PMC2427062.
30. Wormald RN, Moran RJ, Reilly RB, Lacy PD. (2008) Performance of an automated, remote system to
detect vocal fold paralysis. Ann. Otol. Rhinol. Laryngol., 117(11): 834-838. PMID: 19102129.
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31. Moran RJ, Kiebel SJ, Stephan KE, Reilly RB, Daunizeau J, Friston KJ. (2007) A neural mass model of
spectral responses in electrophysiology. Neuroimage, 37(3):706-720. PMID: 17632015, PMCID:
PMC2644418.
32. Moran RJ, Reilly RB, de Chazal P, Lacy PD. (2006) Telephony-based voice pathology assessment using
automated speech analysis. IEEE Trans Biomedical Engineering, 53(3): 468-477. PMID: 16532773.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Moran R. (2013) Dynamic Causal Models for EEG In: The Science of Large Data Sets: Spike, Fields and Voxels.
(Eberwine J, ed) pp. [27-33]. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience.
Moran R. Dynamic Causal Models for Human Electrophysiology: EEG, MEG and LFPs. Brain Mapping: An
Encyclopedic Reference. Elsevier, to be published 2014.
Moran R. Dynamic causal modelling with neural population models. Springer Encyclopedia of Computational
Neuroscience. To be published 2014.
SELECTED INVITED
TALKS
 COSYNE, Workshop on Computational Psychiatry, Utah, USA. March 2014.
 Short Course on the Science of Large Data Sets: Spikes, Fields and Voxels, Annual Meeting of the
Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA. November 2013.
 Cortex, Consciousness and Anesthesia, Hector DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery,
Madison, Wisconsin, November 2013.
 Computational Psychiatry 2013, Miami, USA. October 2013.
 Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute European-U.S. Workshop on the Neuroscience of Cognition,
Computation and Decisions, Ticino, Switzerland. October 2013.
 The Lieber Institute for Brain Development (LIBD) and the Maltz Research Laboratories, John’s
Hopkins Medical Centre, Baltimore, USA. September 2013.
 Summer School on Neuronal Communication & Brain Connectivity. Donder’s Institute for Brain
Science, Radbound University, The Netherlands. August 2013.
nd
 Workshop on neuronal validating models in Psychiatry and Neurology (co-chair & speaker), 22
Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, Paris, France. July 2013.
 Human Brain Mapping, Educational Workshop, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Seattle, USA.
June 2013.
 Rhythmic Dynamics and Cognition, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA. June 2013.
 South West Virginia Chapter of Society for Neuroscience, meeting of, VTCRI, Virginia, USA. March
2013.
 Bio-imaging Seminar, Virginia Tech Research Centre – Arlington, Virginia, USA. November 2012.
 Symposium on Computational Psychiatry and Ageing, UCL-MPS, Ringberg Castle, Munich, Germany.
September 2012.
 Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany. September
2012.
 Workshop on Dynamic Causal Modelling, ICM Paris, France. August 2012.
 Workshop on the Free Energy Principle, WTCN, UCL, London, UK. July 2012.
 Brain Connectivity Workshop, Chengdu, China. June 2012.
nd
 2 Einstein Fellowship Symposium on Decision-making. Berlin School of Mind & Brain, Berlin,
Germany. May 2012.
 Towards Mathematical Modeling of Neurological Disease from Cellular Perspectives; Parkinson’s
Disease Workshop, Field’s Institute for Mathematics, Toronto University, Toronto, Canada. May 2012.
 Workshop on Dynamic Causal Modelling, CUBRIC, Cardiff University, Wales. February 2012.
 Short Course on Statistical Parametric Mapping, VTC Research Institute, Virginia, USA. January 2012.
 Short Course on Bayesian Statistics, VTC Research Institute, Virginia, USA. January 2012.
 Conference on “The brain: from mind to molecules”, Biopolis, A-star, Singapore, December 2011.
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 Max Planck Institute for Human Development. The Center for Lifespan Psychology. Berlin, Germany.
November 2011.
 Case Studies on Bayesian Statistics and Machine Learning, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, US.
October 2011.
 International Max Planck Research Summer School, London, UK. July 2011.
 Trinity Centre for BioEngineering Seminar Series, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. May 2011.
 Einstein Fellowship Symposium on Decision-making. Berlin School of Mind & Brain, Berlin, Germany.
April 2011.
 Seminar Series: Brain Networks and Neuronal Communication, Donders Institute, Radbound
University, Nijmegen, Holland. April 2011.
 FMRIB Seminar Series, Oxford University, Oxford, UK. March 2011.
 Grand Challenges in Neural Computation II, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. February 2011.
 2nd Intl Conference on Resting State Connectivity, Milwaukee, USA. September 2010.
 2nd International Conference on Resting State Connectivity, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
September 2010.
 Autumn School, Analyze the Brain, International Max Planck Research School, Tübingen,
Germany. November 2010.
 BrainModes, Annual Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark. December 2010.
 COSYNE, Workshop Symposium on Neural Fields, Utah, USA. March 2010.
 Institute of Movement Neuroscience, Workshop on Oscillations, UCL, London, UK. March 2010.
 The Brain Meeting, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL, London, UK. February 2010.
 Neural Engineering Session Keynote, Bioengineering in Ireland Conference, Dublin, Ireland.
January 2010.
 Satellite Meeting, BrainModes, Bristol University, UK. December 2009.
 Gordon Research Conference (The Amygdala), Maine, USA. July 2009.
 British Neuroscience Association, Annual Meeting, Liverpool, UK. April 2009.
 Mini-Bags (Basal Ganglia Conference), The Charité, Berlin, Germany. December 2008.
 Foundations of Human Social Behaviour, Seminar Series, Zurich University, Switzerland. October
2008.
 European Working Memory Workshop, Bristol, UK. September 2008.
 Education Courses, Human Brain Mapping Conference, Melbourne, Australia. June 2008.
 Workshop on Local Field Potentials, Manchester University, UK. April 2008.
 Gatsby External Seminar Series, The Gatsby Centre, UCL, London UK. December 2007.
 IEEE Conference for Engineering in Biology and Medicine, New York, USA. August 2006.

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