Laura Lewis
- Email ldlewis@bu.edu
- Education PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, BU College of Engineering
Research Interests
Dr. Lewis is developing new, comprehensive ways to map brain dynamics over time—particularly during sleep cycles. She and her team are interested in how deep brain circuits, such as those in the thalamus, regulate and modulate cortical and behavioral states. Her fast, high-resolution neuroimaging techniques can detect activity in these complex brain circuits. She employs computational and systems neuroscience approaches to study how large-scale brain networks shift between sleep and wake states, and how sleep deprivation leads to cognitive dysfunction. Lewis joined Boston University in 2019, after recent work as an investigator at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital. She has received the Society for Neuroscience Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award and was selected as a Kavli fellow of the National Academy of Sciences.
Lab Webpage: Lewis Lab