Biography
Dr. Amanda Foust is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London and leads the Optical Neurophysiology Laboratory. She received a PhD in Neuroscience from Yale University in 2012, where she investigated how neuronal axons propagate and modulate information through high-speed voltage imaging. She then completed an NSF International Research Fellowship in the Wavefront Engineering Microscopy group led by Valentina Emiliani at Université Paris Descartes. She obtained a Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship at Imperial Bioengineering in 2016 and was appointed as a Lecturer in 2018. Her team engineers bridges between optical technologies and neuroscience to acquire groundbreaking data on how brain circuits wire, process, and store information. She develops optical and computational strategies to enable fast, volumetric, cellular-resolution readout of neural voltage, calcium, and hemodynamics.
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Imperial College London
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Invited speaker, 2026