About Amanda Buch
Dr. Amanda M. Buch is a Cuban American neuroscientist and postdoctoral fellow at Weill Cornell Medicine who received her Ph.D. from Weill Cornell Medicine of Cornell University and has studied science diplomacy at Rockefeller University as part of the Hurford Science Diplomacy Initiative. She obtained her B.A. in Biophysics from Columbia University in 2014. Her doctoral work with Dr. Conor Liston focused on identifying autism spectrum disorder subgroups using machine learning, and she is now developing new algorithms for machine learning in neuropsychiatry in her postdoctoral research with Dr. Logan Grosenick. Her areas of research expertise include neuroimaging, machine learning, behavioral neuromodulation, ultrasonics, and bioinformatics.
Prior to her doctoral research, Dr. Buch worked with Dr. Daphna Shohamy at Columbia University where she investigated the neural correlates of cognitive flexibility in patients with Parkinson’s disease using task-based functional MRI; with Dr. Vincent Ferrera and Dr. Elisa Konofagou at Columbia University where she studied noninvasive focused ultrasound neuromodulation and blood-brain barrier opening for targeted drug delivery; and with Dr. Viviane Tabar at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on iPSC-derived dopamine grafts for Parkinson’s disease.
Her research and science communication have been featured by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Dana Foundation, and Story Collider, and she has published in academic journals including Nature, Neuron Neuropsychopharmacology, Scientific Reports and Science & Diplomacy.
Beyond her science endeavors, she is a visual artist and studies drawing and painting in the classical art tradition at Grand Central Atelier in NYC.