Lecture: The Mind-Body Connection by Andrei Irimia

Tuesday, March 10, 2020 7:30 PM-9:30 PM

Ward Hall

The Honors College has selected Andrei Irimia as it Alumnus of the Year. He will give a lecture titled “The Mind-Body Connection: A Neuroscientist’s Perspective,” at 7:30 p.m. on March 10 in Ward Hall.

Irimia recently received a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to explore the implications of computation biology for understanding dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. 

He currently serves as an assistant professor of gerontology, biomedical engineering and neuroscience in the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California. 

Irimia graduated from Lipscomb in 2002, and his first foray into using computer programming to understand the functions of the brain was writing his honors thesis titled “Quantum Mechanical Calculations of Atomic Structures Using a Script Generator for Multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock Approximations.”

He has since completed master’s degrees in computer science and biophysics and a Ph.D. in biophysics, all at Vanderbilt University, and has done postdoctoral work on brain mapping and neurophysiology at the University of California, San Diego, and at UCLA, where he studied multimodal neuroimaging.