He completed his Ph.D. in Biophysics at the Medical College of Wisconsin, after which he held positions as a post-doc and then staff scientist at the National Institute of Mental Health. His work in has focused on improving the usefulness of functional MRI, including strategies and post-processing techniques to reduce artifacts resulting from task-induced subject motion; understanding the dynamics of the blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) fMRI signal; and reducing the influence of physiological noise in estimates of functional connectivity. His current work focuses on methods to reliably measure changes in and efforts to understand the psychosocial correlates of functional connectivity during childhood and adolescence. Su-Chun Zhang, M.D., Ph.D.