{"id":18,"date":"2011-07-12T20:01:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T20:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altmann.eu\/research\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:37:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:37:02","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.altmann.eu\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This site serves as an overview about my research. I studied Computer Science at the RWTH Aachen<\/a> and graduated in 2005 with a work in the field of spoken language recognition at the Chair for Computer Science 6<\/a>. After that I pursued my PhD studies in Saarbr\u00fccken at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics<\/a> in the Computational Biology<\/a> group of Thomas Lengauer. From February 2010 till May 2012 I was a Postdoctoral researcher in the Statistical Genetics Group<\/a> headed by Bertram M\u00fcller-Myhsok at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry<\/a> in Munich. From July 2012 till July 2015 I worked at the FIND lab<\/a> of the Stanford University<\/a> headed by Michael D Greicius first as a Postdoctoral Scholar (till January 2015) and later as an Instructor. In August 2015 I joined UCL<\/a> as a MRC Senior Fellow (with support from the MRC eMedLab<\/a> project), where I launched the COMputational Biology in Imaging and geNEtics (COMBINE)<\/a> lab as part of the UCL Hawkes Institute<\/a> (formerly Centre for Medical Image Computing; CMIC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publications<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

You can find results of my research here in the form of Publications<\/a>, Posters<\/a><\/strong> and Software<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research interests<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

My research focuses on understanding how molecular biology shapes brain function in healthy and diseased brains. In the healthy brain I aim at answering questions such as \u201cWhich genes are responsible for variations in neural activity in the resting brain?\u201d whereas in the diseased brain I want to understand which processes are causing severe malfunctions leading to neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders such as Major Depressive Disorder and Alzheimer\u2019s disease. My goal is to understand the molecular biology behind these disorders; down the road such an understanding may result in new drug candidates. Furthermore, I am interested in developing disease biomarkers that assist in early detection of the disorder and in personalizing the treatment. Thus, my research interests are centered on topics in neuroimaging, molecular genetics, and machine learning <\/strong>(and their combinations).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact details<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Andr\u00e9 Altmann<\/strong>
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University Collage London
1st Floor, room 1.21
90 High Holborn
London, WC1V 6LJ<\/span>

Phone: +44 20 3549 5631
Email: a.altmann[a]ucl.ac.uk<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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