Julian Sergej Benedikt Ramirez

Julian “Bene” Ramirez, Ph.D., is a postdoc at the Child Mind Institute (CMI). He has a background in rodent, non-human primate (NHP), and human primate research. His dissertation work at OHSU focused on investigating aspects of the maternal environment during pregnancy, such as inflammation and diet, and how these related to structural and functional brain development in a Japanese macaque model. Additional work during his Ph.D. focused on helping establish the NHP image-processing pipeline in the Fair lab. He also conducted collaborative work with Dr. Xu and Dr. Milham at CMI, aiming to better understand inter-individual variation in functional areal organizations of the cortex. At CMI, he will continue in NHP and human research to identify similarities across-species development.