Biography & Research:
Elena Rodriguez-Vieitez is a senior researcher at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Since 2012, she performs research on MRI-PET imaging to understand the dynamics of protein aggregation, neuroinflammation and brain structure in neurodegenerative diseases. Her research is reflected in over 50 peer-reviewed articles. She is a graduate in physics from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and PhD in nuclear engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, USA.