Bio: Danielle S. Bassett is the Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. She is most well-known for her work blending neural and systems engineering to identify fundamental mechanisms of cognition and disease in human brain networks. She received a B.S. in physics from Penn State University and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cambridge, UK. Following a postdoctoral position at UC Santa Barbara, she was a Junior Research Fellow at the Sage Center for the Study of the Mind. She has received multiple prestigious awards, including American Psychological Association’s `Rising Star’, Alfred P Sloan Research Fellow, MacArthur Fellow Genius Grant, IEEE EMBS Early Academic Achievement Award, and ONR Young Investigator. She was also recently named a Distinguished Fellow of the Annenberg Public Policy Center. She is the founding director of the Penn Network Visualization Program, a combined undergraduate art internship and K-12 outreach program bridging network science and the visual arts.  Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Army Research Office, the Army Research Laboratory, the Alfred P Sloan Foundation, the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and the University of Pennsylvania. She lives with her husband and two sons in Wallingford, Pennsylvania.

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