Professor Megan Huibregtse recently joined the Beckman Institute. She plans to collaborate with Professor Brad Sutton and Aaron Anderson, the assistant director of Beckman’s Biomedical Imaging Center. Her work focuses on how neurotrauma and psychological trauma affect neural circuitry and how this relates to symptoms and functional recovery. She is particularly interested in sex differences and sex-specific neurobiological risk factors.

“I am thrilled to join the Beckman Institute and be a part of such an exceptional interdisciplinary and collaborative group with world-class neuroimaging resources, including the 7 Tesla MRI scanner,” she said, referring to the scanner at the Carle Illinois Advanced Imaging Center 

Huibregtse is part of the Department of Health and Kinesiology in the College of Applied Health Sciences. She completed her doctoral training in human performance at Indiana University and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Grady Trauma Project in the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.