Hi there! My name is Amaryllis Tsiknia. I am a third year neuroscience Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California. My research utilizes various types of brain imaging data to predict whether someone will develop Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia. Experiencing the devastating impact of this disease first hand has fueled my desire to figure out how to prevent it. Because it’s a progressive disease with pathogenic processes that begin decades before the onset of clinical symptoms, leveraging neuroimaging methods and elegant computational techniques is absolutely key to identifying people at risk of developing the disease. 

If I’m not working on a research project, I’m either sweating bullets in a hot pilates class, crocheting, making jewelry, and spending whatever time I have left reading a good novel or gushing over my two feline children.