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Eleanna Varangis is an Assistant Professor in Movement Science at the University of Michigan, where she directs the Assessing Traumatic Head Injury Neurocognitive Approaches (ATHINA) Laboratory and is a member of the Michigan Concussion Center. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Economics from Barnard College of Columbia University and a PhD in Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her dissertation focused on the long-term effects of football-related concussions on cognitive performance, white matter integrity, and functional connectivity in middle adulthood. Following this, she conducted postdoctoral research at Columbia University's Taub Institute under Dr. Yaakov Stern, studying the relationships between cognitive performance and functional connectivity during rest in healthy adults across the adult lifespan. Varangis's research employs cognitive assessments and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate how mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) affects neurocognitive function over various timescales, with the aim of identifying factors that protect or exacerbate deviations from a healthy brain aging trajectory.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science