Research Focus
Dr. Rosanna Kathleen Olsen is a Senior Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute (RRI), Baycrest Academy for Research and Education (BARE) and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto. Dr. Olsen holds a Ph.D. in Psychology, with a specialization in cognitive neuroscience from Stanford University. Her laboratory studies how human memory changes with advanced age and the brain regions involved in different types of memory. She also co-leads an international working group called the Hippocampal Subfields Group, which develops standardized neuroimaging analysis protocols. Dr. Olsen also co-leads the Neuroimaging Platform for COMPASS-ND (Phase III), the signature cohort study of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA). In addition she serves as the Education Chair-Elect for the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health-National Institute of Aging, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the Alzheimer Society of Canada, and the EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND). At RRI/BARE, she is the faculty lead of the Research Training Centre. Please visit Dr. Olsen’s Google Scholar page to read more about her lab’s work.
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