Faculty
Alexander Rauscher
Dr Alexander Rauscher is an Associate Professure (tenure) in the Department of Pediatrics. He obtained his PhD in Physics from the TU Vienna, Austria, and after post-doctoral training at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany, he joined the UBC MRI Research Centre at the University of British Columbia in 2007. He became Assistant Professor at the Department of Radiology at UBC in 2010. In 2012, he received a CIHR New Investigator Award. In 2015 he joined the Department of Pediatrics at UBC as a Canada Research Chair in Developmental Neuroimaging. Dr Rauscher’s work focuses on the development and utilization of new quantitative magnetic resonance imaging methods for brain research. The overarching goal of this research is to develop markers for tissue damage and repair in the central nervous system. [Email] [Twitter]
Current Lab Members
Marek Obajtek, Physics summer student
Alina Martinez, visiting student
Jon Doucette, PhD student in Physics
Alex Jaffray, PhD student in Physics
Christian Kames, PhD student in Physics
Julian Kloiber, PhD student in Physics
Recent Past Lab Members
Sam Connolly, MSc Student in Physics
Michelle Medina, MSc Student in Physics
Lara Bartles, PhD Student in Physics
Aisling Fothergill, Undergraduate student in Physics
Suliat Yakubu, Undergraduate Student, Physics
Nicholas Ioannidis, Coop student, engineering Physics
Rory McKerchar, FLEX student 2020
Nayanica Biswas, MITACS Globalink summer student 2020
Jakob Seja, visiting graduate student in Biomedical Engineering
Shafkat Hussain, coop student in Engieneering Physics
Laura Kim, undergraduate student in Physics
Yuting Zhang, MD, postdoc, MD
Christoph Birkl, Ph.D, Erwin Schrödinger Postdoctoral Fellow, now postdoc at Medical University Innsbruck
Vanessa Wiggermann, Ph.D student in Physics, now postdoc at the Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance
Nino Hernández-Torres, Ph.D, postdoc, now research scientist at the Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance
Alex Weber, Ph.D, postdoc, now faculty at BC Children’s hospital
Daniel Kor, Engineering Physics undergraduate, now MSc student at Oxford University
Past Lab Members until 2018
Mike Jarret, MSc, research scientis
Luckshi Rajendran, FLEX student
Leo Hu, FLEX student
Craig Stewart (medical student) summer student
Friedrich Anastasopoulos, summer student
Lucy Wei (undergraduate)
Joanna Yuen (undergraduate). Joanna is now a medical student.
Anna Pukropski (visiting summer student)
Alina Elter (visiting summer student)
Andreas Schmidbauer (visiting summer student)
Nora Kassner (visiting summer student)
Maddy Daemen (visiting summer student)
Jaching Hung (undergraduate)
Chouson Chun (undergraduate)
Evan Chen (MSc)
Stephanie Schoerner (visiting summer student)
Inga Ibs (visiting summer student)
Seyedmorteza Rohani Rankouhi (visiting graduate student)
Michael Fan (undergraduate)
Elham Shahinfard (PostDoc)
Christian Denk (graduate student)
Glen Foster (PostDoc)
Kelly McPhee (undergraduate student)
Meng Yuan (visiting summer student)
Daniel Rieger (visiting summer student)
Sandy Wright (UBC Okanagan)
Christopher Ward (undergraduate)