Alejandra Sierra Lopez

Adjunct Professor, Academy Research Fellow in Micr
Department of Neurobiology
University of Eastern Finland
Finland

Biography

He is also a academy research fellow at the Biomedical Imaging Unit, Department of Neurobiology, A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Eastern Finland (Kuopio, Finland) (2014-present). He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at “Alberto Sols” Biomedical Research Institute (CSIC/UAM) in Madrid, Spain.

Research Intrest

Microstructural Imaging

List of Publications
Sierra A, Gröhn O, Pitkänen A (2015) Imaging microstructural damage and plasticity in the hippocampus during epileptogenesis. Neuroscience 309: 162-172.
Laitinen T, Sierra A, Bolkvadze T,Pitkänen A and Gröhn O (2015)Diffusion tensor imaging detectschronic microstructural changes inwhite and gray matter after traumaticbrain injury in rat.Front. Neurosci. 9:128.
Alejandra Sierra1*, Tuukka Miettinen1, Lauri Lehto1, Teemu Laitinen1, Ilya Belevich2,et al. (2013). Novel microstructural MRI biomarkers for epileptogenesis after brain injury. Front. Neuroinform.