Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi, Ph.D.

 

Director, Laboratory for Computational Neurodiagnostics (www.lcneuro.org)

Baszucki Endowed Chair for Metabolic Neuroscience

Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Resident Faculty, Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology

Affiliate:  Depts. of Physics, Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Neurology

 

RESEARCH FOCUS

Dr. Mujica-Parodi’s research interests focus on the extension of control theory to allostatic regulation of neural circuits and their interactions with other physiological systems (metabolic, endocrine, immune, autonomic), in health and disease.  Her research group is highly multi-disciplinary: integrating basic, clinical, and computational neuroscience, as well as commercial software and instrumentation development.

 

EDUCATION

• 1992     BA                                              Georgetown University
• 1998     PHD                                          Columbia University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

09/01 – 08/03         Assistant Professor (Psychiatry)
Columbia University; New York, NY

09/03 – 11/11         Assistant Professor (Biomedical Engineering)
Stony Brook University; Stony Brook NY

05/10 – 08/10        Visiting Professor (Neurology)
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience
Ludwig–Maximilians Universität; Munich, Germany

02/13 –                       Research Staff Scientist, Neuroscientist, Lecturer (Radiology)
Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Boston MA

04/13 – 03/17        Research Affiliate
McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge MA

06/18 –                     Full Professor, Tenured (Biomedical Engineering)
Additional Affiliations: Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology
Program in Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry,
Department of Neurology, Department of Physics,
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook NY

06/21 – 01/22        Weston Visiting Professor (Physics, Complex Systems)
Weizmann Institute of Science; Rehovot Israel

07/23 –                        External Faculty (Complex Systems)
Santa Fe Institute; Santa Fe NM

09/23 –                       Research Affiliate
Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge MA

selected HONORS

• 2010     National Science Foundation CAREER Award
• 2011     White House Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
• 2017     W.M. Keck Foundation Medical Research Award
• 2021     U.S. State Department/Fulbright Foundation Distinguished Scholar Award
• 2023     Baszucki Foundation, Endowed Chair of Metabolic Neuroscience
• 2023     Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES MEMBERSHIP

• Society for Neuroscience
• Organization for Human Brain Mapping
• New England Complex Systems Institute

PUBLICATIONS

Publications can be found here.  

SelectedPublications:

• Mujica-Parodi LR, Amgalan A, Sultan SF, Sun X, Skiena S, Lithen A, Adra N, Ratai EM, Weistuch C, Govindarajan ST, Strey HH, Dill K, Stufflebeam S, Veech RL, Clarke K. Diet modulates brain network stability, a biomarker for brain aging, in young adults. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 117;11, 6170-6177 (2020).
• Mujica-Parodi LR and Strey HH. Making sense of computational psychiatry. Int. J. Neuropsychopharmacol. 5 339 - 47 (2020).
• Weistuch C, Mujica-Parodi LR, Antal B, Razban R, van Nieuwenhuizen H, Amgalan A, Dill K. Metabolism modulates network synchrony in the aging brain. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 118 (40) e2025727118 (2021).
• Razban R, Pachter JA, Dill KA, Mujica-Parodi LR. Early Path Dominance as a Principle for Neurodevelopment. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 120(16) e2218007120 (2023)

FUNDING  

Funding can be found here.