Dell AcquaFlavio Dell'Acqua (FDA), King's College London, is Senior Lecturer in Translational Neuroimaging at the Department of Forensics and Neurodevelopmental Sciences and the Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopment, Institute of Psychiatry, Psyhology and Neuroscience. FDA's research focuses on the development and application of new diffusion imaging and tractography methods for neuroscience, psychiatric and clinical research as well as preclinical applications.

FDA is coauthor of more than 60 papers and his methods have been successfully applied in a broad range of tractography studies ranging from the first visualisation of the superior longitudinal fasciculus in humans (Thiebaut De Schotten*, Dell'Acqua* et al., Nat. Neuroscience. 2011) to application on autism (Catani et al. Brain 2016), stroke (Forkel et al. Brain 2014) and neurosurgery (Vergani et al. Neurosurgery 2016). His methods have been fundamental also in major debates on new neuroanatomical theories (Catani, Body & Dell'Acqua, Science 2013) and, more recently, FDA contributed in the critical evaluation of the current challenges of modern tractography and structural connectivity methods (Maier-Hein et al. Nature Communications 2017).

FDA is currently the lead of the diffusion imaging analysis team for the largest European multi-centre study on autism (EU-AIMS) and is collaborating with research institutes across Europe and US. He is a member and co-founder of the NATBRAINLAB (www.natbrainlab.com) an interdepartmental laboratory dedicated to the study of human neuroanatomy and tractography research. Since 2014, he has been the organiser of the educational courses on Diffusion Imaging for the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) conferences. He is also an active member of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) where he has lectured at the morning educational courses and past international workshops (Lisbon 2016 and Ljubljana 2017) on tractography methods. Read More Read Less