CV

Current Position

Research Fellow in the CoNI Lab, University of Nottingham, researching brain-behaviour associations, developing robust tractography tools, and building harmonisation resources. Funded by the ERC.

Education

• PhD in Brain Connectivity Mapping, University of Nottingham, 2017-2021
  • Supervisors: Stamatios Sotiropoulos, Theodore Kypraios
  • Funding: MRC IMPACT DTP
  • Thesis title: Brain connectivity mapping with diffusion MRI across individuals and species
  • Graduation: 4th August 2021
• MSc Clinical Sciences (Imaging with Non-Ionising Radiation), University of Newcastle, 2014-2017
  • Thesis title: Using advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging techniques to improve the characterisation of multiple sclerosis
• BSc Physics, University of Leicester, 2010-2013

Experience

• Research Fellow
  • CoNI Lab, University of Nottingham, October 2021 - Current
  • Funder: European Research Council (ERC) - the Neuro-Metrology Programme
• Research Assistant
  • CoNI Lab, University of Nottingham, April-October 2021
• Visiting Research Scholar
  • Anticevic Lab, Yale University, March-May 2019
• Scholars Programme Tutor
  • The Brilliant Club, 2018-2021
• Visiting Research Student
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Oct-Dec 2016
• Trainee Clinical Scientist (Scientist Training Programme)
  • Nottingham University Hospitals, 2014-2017
• STEM Ambassador
  • STEMNET, 2016-Current
• Ward Clerk
  • University Hospitals of Leicester, Dec 2013 - Aug 2014

Skills

• Operating systems
  • Linux
  • Mac OS
  • Windows
• Programming Languages
  • Python
  • Matlab
  • Bash
  • Basic HTML
• Tools
  • SLURM job scheduler
  • Git
  • LaTeX
  • Neuroimage processing tools (FSL, SPM, …)

Awards

• ISMRM Summa Cum Laude abstract merit (abstract in the top 5% for category)
• MRC IMPACT DTP Transition Funding. 6 months of funding to transition from PhD student to post-doctoral researcher. Feb 2021
• First Place Poster Prize for the MRC IMPACT DTP Student Symposium poster competition. October 2019
• UoN Graduate School Flexible Funding, supporting the visit to Anticevic Lab, starting a collaborative project on exploring the stability of multivariate statistical methods. March-May 2019
• ISMRM New Entrant Stipend to attend the 2018 Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB. June 2018
• MRC Supplementary Funding, funding to attend the HCP 2018 Course: Exploring the Human Connectome. March 2018
• IPEM funding awarded to cover expenses for STEM for Britain 2017. March 2017
• NUH Charity Staff Development, funding the visit to the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University. October-December 2016
• IPEM Travel Award to attend IPEM’s MR Safety Update Conference. November 2015

Other

• Ad-hoc Peer Reviewer:
  • Nature Methods
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • Communications Biology
  • Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • NMR in Biomedicine
  • Scientific Reports
  • NeuroImage
  • Oxford University Press
• Memberships and Professional Bodies:
  • OHBM, Student Member, 2018-Current
  • HCPC, State Registered Clinical Scientist, 2017-Current
  • IPEM, Associate Member, 2014-Current

Publications

• S. Warrington, A. Ntata, O. Mougin, J. Campbell, A. Torchi, M. Craig, F. Alfaro-Almagro, K. L. Miller, P. S. Morgan, M. Jenkinson, and S. N. Sotiropoulos, “A resource for development and comparison of multimodal brain 3T MRI harmonisation approaches”, Imaging Neuroscience, 2023, 10.1162/imag_a_00042

• J. L. Ji, J. Demšar, C. Fonteneau, Z. Tamayo, L. Pan, A. Kraljič, A. Matkovič, N. Purg, M. Helmer, S. Warrington, A. Winkler, V. Zerbi, T. S. Coalson, M. F. Glasser, M. P. Harms, S. N. Sotiropoulos, J. D. Murray, A. Anticevic, and G. Repovš, “QuNex—an integrative platform for reproducible neuroimaging analytics”, Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, vol. 17, 2023, 10.3389/fninf.2023.1104508

• S. Warrington*, E. Thompson*, M. Bastiani, J. Dubois, L. Baxter, R. Slater, S. Jbabdi, R. B. Mars, and S. N. Sotiropoulos, “Concurrent mapping of brain ontogeny and phylogeny within a common space: Standardized tractography and applications”, Science Advances, vol. 8(42) 2022, 10.1126/sciadv.abq2022

• P. Tewarie, B. Prasse, J. Meier, K. Mandke, S. Warrington, C. J. Stam, M. J. Brookes, P. Van Mieghem, S. N. Sotiropoulos, and A. Hillebrand,, “Predicting time-resolved electrophysiological brain networks from structural eigenmodes”, Human Brain Mapping, 2022, doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25967

• K. G. Schilling, …, S. Warrington, et al., “Tractography dissection variability: what happens when 42 groups dissect 14 white matter bundles on the same dataset?”, NeuroImage, vol. 243, 2021. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118502

• M. Helmer, S. Warrington, A.-R. Mohammadi-Nejad, J. L. Ji, A. Howell, B. Rosand, A. Anticevic, S. N. Sotiropoulos, and J. D. Murray, “On stability of canonical correlation analysis and partial least squares with application to brain-behavior associations”, bioRxiv, 2020. 10.1101/2020.08.25.265546.

• S. Warrington, K. L. Bryant, A. A. Khrapitchev, J. Sallet, M. Charquero-Ballester, G. Douaud, S. Jbabdi, R. B. Mars, and S. N. Sotiropoulos, “XTRACT - standardised protocols for automated tractography in the human and macaque brain”, NeuroImage, vol. 217, 2020. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116923.

• E. Peake, S. Warrington, N. J. Dudley, P. S. Morgan, and N. M. Gibson, “A Method of Correcting for the Effect of Temperature on Low-Contrast Penetration Measurement in Urethane Phantoms”, Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, vol. 45, no. 6, 2019. 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2019.02.012

Software Contributions

• XTRACT
  • xtract
  • xtract_viewer
  • xtract_stats
  • xtract_blueprint
  • xtract_qc
• XTRACT WM tract atlases
• HCP1065 standard-space DTI templates
• Contributor to QuNex diffusion pipelines
• Contributor to gemmr

Conference Presentations

• S. Warrington, E. Thompson, M. Bastiani, J. Dubois, L. Baxter, R. Slater, S. Jbabdi, R.B. Mars, S.N. Sotiropoulos, “Mapping brain diversity across ontogeny and phylogeny within a common connectivity space”, Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), 2022. Oral and Poster Presentation.

• L. Ji, J. Demšar, C. Fonteneau, S. Warrington, Z. Tamayo, A. Kraljič, A. Matkovič, N. Purg, M. Helmer, S. Sotiropoulos, J. Murray, A. Anticevic, G. Repovš, “QuNex: A Scalable Platform for Integrative Multi-Modal Neuroimaging Data Processing and Analysis.”, Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), 2022. Poster.

• A. Howell, S. Warrington, J.L. Ji, R. Cooper, M. Shinn, B. Adkinson, C. Fonteneau, S.N. Sotiropoulos, J.D. Murray, A. Anticevic, “Characterizing the spatial pattern of cortical tractography projections within the human thalamus”, Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), 2022. Poster.

• S. Warrington, E. Thompson, J. Dubois, L. Baxter, R. Slater, R. B. Mars, S. Jbabdi, M. Bastiani, S. N. Sotiropoulos, “Tractography protocols for the neonatal brain, standardised against the adult human and macaque”, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), 2022. Oral Presentation. Summa Cum Laude merit

• J.L. Ji, J. Demšar, C. Fonteneau, S. Warrington, Z. Tamayo, A. Kraljič, A. Matkovič, N. Purg, M. Helmer, S. Sotiropoulos, J. Murray, A. Anticevic, G. Repovš, “A Scalable Platform for Integrated Multi-Modal Neuroimaging Data Processing and Analysis Across Psychiatric Studies”, Biological Psychiatry, 2022, DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.02.812

• A. Howell, S. Warrington, J.L. Ji, M. Shinn, B. Adkinson, C. Fonteneau, S.N. Sotiropoulos, J.D. Murray, A. Anticevic, “Cortical Projection Topography Across Thalamus Reflects Large-Scale Brain Organization”, Biological Psychiatry 89(9):S181, 2021, DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.02.460

• S. Warrington, M. Helmer, J.L. Ji, A.-R. Mohammadi-Nejad, A. Anticevic, J.D. Murray, S.N. Sotiropoulos, “Exploring the stability of canonical correlation analysis between imaging and non-imaging datasets”, Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), 2020. Poster.

• H. Rafipoor, S. Warrington, K. Bryant, S.N. Sotiropoulos, M. Cottaar, R.B. Mars, S. Jbabdi, “Cross-species parcellation of the corpus callosum using joint embedding of connectivity blueprints”, Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), 2020. Poster.

• M. Helmer, S. Warrington, J.L. Ji, A. Howell, B. Rosand, A. Anticevic, S.N. Sotiropoulos, J.D. Murray, “Reliable estimation of Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) and Partial Least Squares (PLS) with application to brain-behavior associations”, Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), 2020. Poster.

• A. Howell, S. Warrington, J.L. Ji, A. Kolobaric, B. Adkinson, C. Fonteneau, S.N. Sotiropoulos, J.D. Murray, A. Anticevic, “Exploring the topography of structure-function mappings across cortico-thalamic systems.”, Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), 2020. Poster.

• A. Howell, S. Warrington, J.L. Ji, B. Adkinson, S.N. Sotiropoulos, J.D. Murray, A. Anticevic, “Defining Targeted Projection Patterns in Thalamus Using Diffusion Weighted Imaging”, 2020, Biological Psychiatry 87(9):S380, DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.02.973

• S. Warrington, K.L. Bryant, M. Charquero-Ballester, G. Douaud, S. Jbabdi, R.B. Mars, and S.N. Sotiropoulos, “Standardised protocols for automated tractography and connectivity blueprints”, MRC IMPACT DTP Student Symposium, 2019 - Awarded 1st Place in the poster competition. Poster.

• S. Warrington, K.L. Bryant, M. Charquero-Ballester, G. Douaud, S. Jbabdi, R.B. Mars, and S.N. Sotiropoulos, “Standardised protocols for automated tractography and connectivity blueprints”, Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), 2019. Poster.

• A.M. Howell, S. Warrington, J.L. Ji, B. Adkinson, S.N. Sotiropoulos, J.D. Murray, A. Anticevic, “Characterizing higher-order thalamo-cortical projection patterns in humans.”, Society for Neuroscience, 2019. Poster.

• H. Ganjgahi, J. Bijsterbosch, E.W. Daw, B. Donohue, E. Fieremans, D. Gahn, M. Glasser, M. Harms, M. Hodge, S. Jbabdi, P. Kochunov, J. Marchini, D. Novikov, S. Smith, S. Sotiropoulos, D. Van Essen, J. Veraart, S. Warrington, A. Winkler, T. Nichols, “Genetics of the Young Adult Human Connectome Project”, Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), 2018. Poster.

• S. Warrington, A. Pitiot, N. Evangelou, P. Morgan, “Using advanced MRI techniques to improve the characterisation of Multiple Sclerosis”, STEM for Britian, 2017. Poster.

Other Publications

• S. Warrington, “Image-guided surgical robots for brachytherapy”, IPEM’s SCOPE Magazine, Special Reports, Sep 2017