Christian Kerskens
Lead Physicist
Clinical Medicine
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Education: 1997 Doctor of Science (Dr. rerum naturalium), University of Cologne 1997 Thesis: Development of theoretical and experimental methods of measuring brain perfusion using NMR, Max-Planck-Institute for neurological Research, Cologne (Dept. for Experimental Neurology, Prof. Hossmann) 1993 Masters-Degree in Physics (Diplom Physik), University of Cologne 1992/3 Masters thesis, Institute for Nuclear Physics, University of Cologne 1988-93 studies of theoretical and experimental physics, at the University of Cologne Professional Background: Since 2005 Lead physicist Institute of Neuroscience, Dublin Associate Research Lecturer, Clinical Medicine, Trinity College 2002-04 Senior MR-physicist, FC Donders Centre for cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen 1997-2001 MR-physicist, Charité, Medical Faculty of the Humboldt University, Berlin, Neurological Clinic: Clinical Research Group, subproject: Acute-diagnostic and therapy-monitoring by human media-infarct with functional NMR and near-infrared spectroscopy 1993-1996 Scholarship to Max-Planck-Institute for neurological Research, Cologne (Dept. for Experimental Neurology, Prof. Hossmann)
Research Interest
. Extra vascular transport mechanisms . Quantification of cerebral blood flow . Neurovascular coupling . Physiological noise in the brain . Time series analysis of MRI data . Direct detection of cell activation with NMR . NMR relaxation mechanisms in biological tissue . Intra and extra cellular diffusion . Technical development for living science research
Publications
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Gormley, S., Rouine, J., McIntosh, A., Kerskens, C., Harkin, A., Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) immunoreactivity correlates with cortical perfusion parameters determined by bolus tracking arterial spin labelling (bt-ASL) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in the Wistar Kyoto rat, Physiology and Behavior, 160, 2016, p66-79
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Rahman M.M, Callaghan C.K, Kerskens C.M, Chattarji S, O'Mara S.M, Early hippocampal volume loss as a marker of eventual memory deficits caused by repeated stress, Scientific Reports, 6, 2016, p29127
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Syed salman Shahid, Christian Kerskens, Robert Gaul, Caitriona Lally, Quantification of extracellular matrix components in arterial tissue using high-resolution micro diffusion tensor imaging, European Molecular Imaging Meeting, Germany, 5-04-2017, 2017
