Dr. Nan Li is assistant professor in the Advanced Imaging Research Center and the Department of Neuroscience at the Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute, UT Southwestern Medical Center. She also holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Bioengineering at UT Dallas.
Dr. Li earned her B.S. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and her Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, both in Biomedical Engineering. Her lab develops innovative neuroimaging and neuroengineering tools to bridge molecular and systems neuroscience. Using advanced multimodal imaging, her team is interested in understanding the neural mechanisms of reward, learning, and memory in both healthy and diseased brains.