Ricercatore Tecnico-Scientifico / Ingegnere Biomedico

Alice Pirastru, PhD in Bioengineering, is a Researcher in the field of Neuroimaging at the Advanced Diagnostic, Therapy, and Rehabilitation Center (CADiTeR) at the IRCCS Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation in Milan. Her main activities involve the implementation of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) protocols, the definition of post-processing pipelines, and the development signal analysis algorithms for MRI. Her research focuses on functional MRI sequence studies (10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120457; 10.3389/fnins.2024.1420122) and integration with other imaging modalities (10.3389/fneur.2020.00831; 10.3390/diagnostics10110963; 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2023.109952), brain connectomics (10.3389/fpsyt.2020.497116; 10.1093/scan/nsab120), and the implementation of quantitative sequences for studying brain tissue properties (10.1007/s00330-020-07515-z; 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120272). In collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano, shecontributed to the development of a toolbox for brain connectivity analysis (SPIDERNET, 10.3389/fnins.2022.818385), which is available to the scientific community on the website https://caditer.dongnocchi.it/.
She has worked with the neuroimaging platform of the IRCCS Neuroscience and Neurorehabilitation Network (RIN), collaborating with physicists and engineers from other national IRCCS centers on the implementation of harmonized MRI protocols (10.3389/fneur.2022.855125; 10.1016/j.ejmp.2022.09.012). Since 2020, she has been involved in teaching at the Università di Milano and, from 2021 to 2023, served as a teaching assistant for the course "Methods for Biomedical Imaging and Computer-aided Surgery" al Politecnico di Milano. Her profile is further enriched by her role in business tutoring for university internships and supervision of bachelor's and master's theses.