Staff

Douglas Befroy, Ph.D. Director

Dr. Befroy is the Director of the Biomedical Imaging Center. He has more than 20 years of experience developing advanced MR methods to investigate physiology and metabolism in human and animal models. He received his Ph.D. at Oxford University after which he joined the imaging community in the Departments of Diagnostic Radiology and Internal Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. At Yale, Doug served in several leadership roles, including acting as Director of the Core of Muscle and Liver Spectroscopy and Co-Director of the Mouse Imaging Core. Most recently, he founded and ran an independent consultancy firm that provides technical support and innovative research solutions to imaging centers and scientists across the globe.

Phone: 512-495-5639
Office: HDB 1.316

Julie DiCarlo, Ph.D. MRI Staff Scientist

Dr. DiCarlo received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, where she focused on the development of pulse sequences, image reconstruction pipelines and the design / construction of MR microscopy coils for quantitative cardiac MRI. She has over 20 years of experience in the development of advanced quantitative imaging methods and spent 10 years designing imaging studies for phase 2 and 3 clinical trials, as well as advising pharmaceutical clinical scientists on the analyses of imaging data for these trials. From 2018, she was a member of the Center for Computational Oncology at UT Austin focussning on the development and improvement of quantitative MR imaging methods for cancer detection and therapy prediction modeling. Julie joined the BIC in February 2022 as our MRI Staff Scientist, to support our users across a broad range of projects including the development and implementation of new MR methods and protocols on our human 3T and preclinical 7T systems. Her personal imaging interests include optimizing the tradeoff between spatial and temporal resolution for quantitative imaging, and techniques for mitigating image artifacts and improving image quality and consistency.

Phone: 512-471-0999
Office: HDB 1.322