• Title Associate Professor in BME and Biology
  • Education Ph.D. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
  • Web Address https://sites.bu.edu/nil/
  • Area of Interest neuroscience, neuroengineering, optical imaging, fMRI, blood flow, hemodynamics
  • Area of Study Neurobiology

Current Research

Anna Devor joined Biomedical Engineering at Boston University (BU) in 2019 as an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Associate Director of the BU Neurophotonics Center. Prior to joining BU, Dr. Devor directed a research laboratory at University of California in San Diego for over a decade. She is an author of >100 peer-reviewed publications. Her research program is focused on real time detection of brain activity across scales. Dr. Devor and her collaborators assemble a suite of microscopic neurophotonic technologies that, collectively, allow precise and quantitative probing of neuronal activity. Then, they combine multimodal measurements and system-level analysis/modeling to understand how microscopic activity patterns translate into noninvasive macroscopic observables. The overarching goal is neurophysiological underpinning of noninvasive neuroimaging signals. Devor is a sought-after teacher and participant of summer schools in neuroimaging around the world. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Neurophotonics published by SPIE and an active member of SPIE and Optica.

Selected Publications

  • Baseline oxygen consumption decreases with cortical depth.
    Mächler P, Fomin-Thunemann N, Thunemann M, Sætra MJ, Desjardins M, Kılıç K, Amra LN, Martin EA, Chen IA, Şencan-Eğilmez I, Li B, Saisan P, Jiang JX, Cheng Q, Weldy KL, Boas DA, Buxton RB, Einevoll GT, Dale AM, Sakadžić S, Devor A.     PLoS Biol. 2022 Oct 27;20(10):e3001440. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001440. 
  • Diversity is our Strength.
    Devor A.     Neurophotonics. 2021 Jul;8(3):030101. doi: 10.1117/1.NPh.8.3.030101. Epub 2021 Sep 29.
  • A Suite of Neurophotonic Tools to Underpin the Contribution of Internal Brain States in fMRI.
    Mächler P, Broggini T, Mateo C, Thunemann M, Fomin-Thunemann N, Doran PR, Sencan I, Kilic K, Desjardins M, Uhlirova H, Yaseen MA, Boas DA, Linninger AA, Vergassola M, Yu X, Lewis LD, Polimeni JR, Rosen BR, Sakadžić S, Buxton RB, Lauritzen M, Kleinfeld D, Devor A.     Curr Opin Biomed Eng. 2021 Jun;18:100273. doi: 10.1016/j.cobme.2021.100273.

Courses Taught:

  • BE471 Quantitative Neuroscience

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