WEBER LAB - Key Persons

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• Assistant Professor at UBC

Dr. Alexander Mark Weber is an Assistant Professor at UBC in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neurology, and an Independent Investigator at BC Children's Hospital Research Institute with the Brain, Behaviour & Development Theme. His research interests focus on developing specific and sensitive quantitative biomarkers of anatomical, functional and metabolic characteristics of brain health in newborns and children. The Weber Lab is interested in using and improving quantitative MRI methods to look at the healthy and disordered brain in pediatric populations.

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• He / His / Him ), Co - Op Student ( May 2025 - Present )

Erhan was born in Karachi, Pakistan. He is a fourth-year student studying Mathematics & Data Science at UBC. He joined the lab in May 2025 as a co-op student, hoping to learn more about advanced machine learning in Python, neural networks and HTML/CSS. He is currently investigating the power-law / scare-invariance of fMRI signals, applying his skills in programming and data analysis. In his spare time, Erhan enjoys playing tennis, basketball, pickleball, hiking, Italian cooking and music.

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• She / Hers / Her ), Undergraduate Summer Student ( May 2025 - August 2025 ) Undergraduate Volunteer Student ( May 2024 - April 2025 )

Floria Lu (She / Hers / Her), Undergraduate Summer Student (May 2025 - August 2025); Undergraduate Volunteer Student (May 2024 - April 2025) Floria was born and mostly raised in Vancouver. She is currently a third-year Medical Laboratory Science undergraduate student at UBC. She joined the lab in May 2024, hoping to learn more about research and neuroimaging, while helping the lab improve upon various functions, such as writing and editing a lab manual; writing a mission/vision statement for the lab; learning how to build a lab website and improving the current one. In her spare time, Floria enjoys drawing, playing the piano, dancing, and watching Kdrama.

Isabel was born and raised in Metro Vancouver and did her undergrad at UBC in Integrated Sciences (Neuroscience and Statistics). To date, her work in neuroimaging has been through a cognitive science lens. She joined the Weber Lab in Sept 2024 because she wanted to learn how the human brain can also be studied as a complex biological system. She is excited to be involved in a project measuring the power-law characteristics of the fMRI signal. To relax, Isabel walks, runs, reads, and plays pickleball.

Sera was born in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan and lived in North Siberia, Russia before moving to Canada at the age of 6. She is a fourth year undergraduate SFU student with two years in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and two years in Computer Science. Sera joined the lab in May 2024. Her project involves creating a signal processing tool in python for fMRI data. In her spare time, Sera enjoys skiing, hiking, travelling and reading.