Federica Agosta took her Post-Degree Graduation in Neurology in 2008 and PhD in Experimental Neurology in 2012. She is a Group Leader at the Division of Neuroscience, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele (OSR), where she conducts research in patients with neurodegenerative conditions. She has a broad background in clinical neurology and neuroimaging, with specific training and expertise in MRI and neurodegenerative diseases. In the period 2002-2007, as junior research fellow at the Neuroimaging Research Unit, OSR, she collaborated in many research projects on the use of quantitative MR techniques in the study of normal aging, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and Parkinson’s disease. During those years, she improved her skills on acquisition and post-processing techniques applied to functional MRI, diffusion tensor MRI and morphometry. This knowledge was instrumental in the success of her  visiting fellowship at the Memory and Aging Center, UCSF in 2007-2008, during which she expanded her understanding of Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, and primary progressive aphasia. During her PhD at Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele (2009-2012), she dealt with several aspects of pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases using MR techniques, with particular interest in young onset dementia and ALS. Her research has led to the publication of over 160 Pubmed-referenced papers. She is Section Editor of the NeuroImage: Clinical journal. In 2016, she has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant.