Hamdi Eryilmaz

I received my PhD at LABNIC at University of Geneva, under the supervision of Prof. Patrik Vuilleumier and Prof. Sophie Schwartz. My PhD focused on lingering effects of positive and negative emotions on subsequent spontaneous brain activity. Under the supervision of Prof. Van De Ville, I developed tools to assess functional connectivity at rest and applied methods to decode different emotional brain states using connectivity maps.

I joined the Buckner Lab at Harvard in June 2012 to investigate the neural bases of normal and extreme habit formation. Then, I joined Dr. Josh Roffman's lab at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to investigate the working memory deficits in patients with schizophrenia. Since 2018, I have been a faculty member at MGH and Harvard Medical School. My current research focuses on neural correlates of attention and working memory and the mechanisms by which they are impaired in psychopathology. We use both fMRI and EEG to identify the neurophysiological signatures associated with working memory and dysexecutive deficits in neuropsychiatric disorders and leverage noninvasive brain stimulation to gauge plasticity of such deficits and obtain imaging predictors of recovery.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) University of Geneva (2007 — 2012)
• Master of Science (M.S.) Boğaziçi University (2004 — 2007)
• Bachelor of Science - BS Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University (1999 — 2004)