Team
Overview
SWAN is the result of a long-standing São Paulo-Würzburg collaboration combining human neuroanatomy, neuropathology, high-thickness histology, radiology, functional neurosurgery, stereotactic planning, image registration, and computational neuromodulation.
The list below summarizes the current SWAN project contributors and foundational collaborators in the requested public grouping.
Main SWAN team
Eduardo Joaquim Lopes Alho
Project lead; correspondence contact; functional neurosurgery; histological segmentation; translational neuroanatomy; SWAN website and open-data coordination.
Erich T. Fonoff
Functional neurosurgery, deep brain stimulation, clinical translation, and stereotactic applications.
Helmut Heinsen
Senior neuroanatomist; morphological brain research; high-thickness histological methods; foundational São Paulo-Würzburg atlas development.
Lea Tenenholz Grinberg
Neuropathology, brain banking, neuroanatomy, and São Paulo / UCSF collaboration.
Ana Tereza Di Lorenzo Alho
Neuroanatomy, histology, and São Paulo-Würzburg atlas development.
Lead-DBS team
Andreas Horn
Lead-DBS, computational neuromodulation, network stimulation, postoperative DBS analysis, and SWAN integration into research software.
Helen Friedrich
Lead-DBS / WarpDrive integration; MNI-space refinement; computational neuroanatomy; research-oriented postoperative imaging analysis.
Simon Oxenford
Computational neuroimaging / neuromodulation research.
MNPS integration work
Armando Alaminos Bouza
Stereotactic planning software / MNPS integration.
Paul Rodrigo dos Reis
Software development / MNPS integration.
Foundational collaborators
- Glaucia Aparecida Bento dos Santos
- Rafael Emidio da Silva
- Ricardo Caires Neves
- Daniel Boari Coelho
- Maryana Alegro
- Edson Amaro Jr
- Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira
Institutional collaboration
The SWAN project builds on collaboration among groups associated with the University of São Paulo, University of Würzburg, InRad/HCFMUSP, the Brain Bank of the Brazilian Aging Brain Study Group, Mevis Informática Médica, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School, University Hospital Cologne, UCSF, and the Lead-DBS / Network Stimulation research community.
Final institutional affiliation wording will be harmonized with the publication and repository release.
Acknowledgment note
The project acknowledges the scientific and technical contributions of the São Paulo-Würzburg collaborative atlas initiative, the brain bank and histology teams, imaging collaborators, software-development collaborators, and the families who made post-mortem human brain research possible.
