As Co-Director of the Developmental Neuroimaging Core in the Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research Center at UNC, he oversees medical imaging research projects in the field of neurodevelopment. Dr. Styner began his research in the field of medical image analysis in 1994 as a graduate student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) Zürich, Switzerland. He received his Masters in 1997 from ETHZ and subsequently his Ph.D. in 2001 from UNC.
From 2001-2002, Dr. Styner held the position of project leader at the Duke Image Analysis Laboratory in Durham, NC. In 2004, Dr. Styner joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina after he founded and headed a thriving research group in Medical Image Analysis for 2 years at the M.E. Müller Research Center, University of Bern, Switzerland. He has participated in leading positions in several national and international projects with close interdisciplinary cooperation with researchers in the fields of medicine, engineering, industry and computer science.
Dr. Styner has co-authored over 200 papers in peer reviewed journals and conferences. His main field of expertise is in medical image processing and analysis for neuro-imaging and computer assisted surgery. He has an extensive background in anatomical structure and tissue segmentation, morphometry using shape analysis, modeling and atlas building, as well as intra and inter-modality registration.