Curriculum Vitae

In this page there is a short summary. You can also download my curriculum vitae.

Areas of Interest

All-optical neurophysiology, Brain Imaging, Medical Imaging, Positron Emission Tomography, Advanced Optical Endoscopy, Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Biophysics, Harvard University (2019), also graduated in
    Medical Engineering and Medical Physics, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. dissertation
  • M.S., Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (2009). thesis
  • Electrical Engineer, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (2009)

Selected Publications

  • Adam, Y., Kim, J.J., Lou, S., Zhao, Y., Xie, M.E., Brinks, D., Wu, H., Mostajo-Radji, M.A., Kheifets, S., Parot, V.J., Chettih, S., Williams, K.J., Gmeiner, B., Farhi, S.L., Madisen, L., Buchanan, E.K., Kinsella, I., Zhou, D. Paninski, L., Harvey, C.D., Zeng, H., Arlotta, P., Campbell, R.E. and Cohen, A.E., “All-optical electrophysiology reveals brain-state dependent changes in hippocampal subthreshold dynamics and excitability”, Nature 569, 413-417 (2019). preprint pdf, publisher's link, Harvard Chemistry news
  • Parot V.J.*, Sing-Long C.*, Adam Y., Böhm U.L., Fan L.Z., Farhi S.L. and Cohen A.E., “Compressed Hadamard Microscopy for high-speed optically sectioned neuronal activity recordings”, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 52 144001, Special issue on neurophotonics (2019). pdf, publisher's link
  • Farhi, S.L.*, Parot, V.J.*, Grama, A., Yamagata, M., Abdelfattah, A.S., Adam, Y., Lou, S., Kim, J.J., Campbell, R.E., Cox, D.D. and Cohen, A.E., “Wide-area all-optical neurophysiology in acute brain slices”, Journal of Neuroscience, 0168-19 (2019). pdf, publisher's link
  • E. Lage, V. Parot, S. C. Moore, A. Sitek, J. M. Udías, S. R. Dave, M. Park, J. J. Vaquero and J. L. Herraiz, “Recovery and normalization of triple coincidences in PET”, Med. Phys. 42, 1398 (2015). pdf, publisher's link
  • V. Parot, D. Lim, G González, G. Traverso, N. S. Nishioka, B. J. Vakoc and N. J. Durr, “Photometric stereo endoscopy”, Journal of Biomedical Optics, 18(7):076017-076017 (2013). pdf, publisher's link, MIT news
  • V. Parot, C. Sing-Long, C. Lizama, C. Tejos, S. Uribe and P. Irarrazaval, “Application of the fractional fourier transform to image reconstruction in MRI”, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 68:17–29 (2012). pdf, publisher's link
* Denotes equal contribution

Awards

  • Deutsch Fellowship, Optical Society of America, 2019
  • Martha L. Gray Prize for Excellence in Research, MIT HST, 2019
  • Young Scientist Development Award, Harvard Brain Initiative, 2018
  • Beca Chile Scholar, 2013
  • Fulbright Scholar, 2012 (declined)
  • M+Visión Fellow, 2011