Adam Martersteck
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
Adam Martersteck is the director of computational neuroimaging initiatives in the Department of Neurology’s Healthy Aging & Alzheimer’s Research Care (HAARC) Center. His lab at the center uses MRI and PET imaging to study “typical” aging, unusually successful cognitive aging (SuperAging), and Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia syndromes with multi-etiology presentations. Martersteck and his lab use neuroimaging to bridge the fields of computational and clinical neuroscience, using machine learning techniques with an emphasis on interpretability to disentangle the heterogeneity of aging and disease.
His research has been published in Alzheimer’s and Dementia, Annals of Neurology, Brain, Cortex, Neurology, Journal of Neuroscience, Acta Neuropathologica Communications, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, and PloS One.
Martersteck received a PhD in neuroscience from Northwestern University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, where he explored the intersection of aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Previously, he was an assistant professor of radiology at Northwestern University, where he was a member of the Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease, and assistant director of its imaging core.