Erik Kastman

Erik received his BS in Biology and Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin and spent the next several years working on neuroimaging studies of aging in the Johnson Neuroimaging Lab and the WADRAC neuroimaging group. At Harvard, Erik is in charge of a number of large-scale data analysis projects and serves as a lab generalist, ensuring that people have the resources they need to ask the questions they ask. He is a research software developer working on MRI and PET neuroinformatics tools with the Affective Neuroscience and Development Lab at Harvard and Bioinformatics of Synthetic Ecology with the Wolfe Lab at Tufts. Previously he has developed tools to investigate the neuroscience of self-control with the Systems Neuroscience of Pscyhopathology Lab, identify pre-clinical Alzheimer's disease with Sterling Johnson's wonderful group at the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, and develop for the web with the fantastic designer Denis Radenkovic in Madison, WI.