Alexander Olsen, PhD

Dr. Olsen is a project scientist at the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA and also an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Clinically, he is working with neuropsychological assessments of children, adolescents and adults with acquired brain injury at St. Olavs Hospital in Norway. In his research, he investigates the consequences of brain injury by combining advanced neuroimaging techniques with neurocognitive and clinical measures. He has a particular interest in investigating the neural correlates of cognitive control function, both in various patient groups, as well as in healthy individuals. At UCLA, his main responsibility is related to working with functional MRI data from a longitudinal study of recovery after pediatric traumatic brain injury. Dr. Olsen is involved in research activities on traumatic brain injury both at UCLA and in Norway, and is passionate about facilitating international collaboration in order to improve the quality of scientific research and health care for this patient group.