Judy Alper graduated with a BA in Physical Sciences (2014) from Yeshiva University and in 2015, while pursuing a MSci in Biomedical Engineering at City College, she joined Professor Priti Balchandani’s High Field Neuroimaging lab at the Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital. She transitioned from a MSci to a PhD in 2016. Judy’s research focuses on development of spectroscopic pulse sequences and image analysis for detection of imaging biomarkers for neurological disorders such as trigeminal neuralgia and major depressive disorder.