Ciao! I'm Maria Guidi, a postdoc in Federico Giove's lab (MARBILab, Enrico Fermi Research Center, Rome) investigating brain physiology with fMRI. I've a background in physics and pursued my PhD under the supervision of Harald Moeller (NMR Unit, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig). Separating the neuronal from the vascular component in the BOLD response is probably my main interest and the techniques I like are...

  • VASO
  • ASL
  • calibrated BOLD
  • respiratory challenges for CVR mapping
    • Previously applied at 7T, now translating to 3T.
    Maria Guidi

    maria.guidi@cref.it

    Postdoctoral Researcher
    MARBILab · Enrico Fermi Research Center
    Rome, Italy

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    Curriculum Vitae

    Work experience
    • May 2025-present: Researcher (contratto di ricerca) at Enrico Fermi Research Center, Rome, Italy
    • Jul 2024-May 2025: Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at INFN-LNS, Catania, Italy
    • Sep 2021-Feb 2024: Postdoctoral Researcher at Enrico Fermi Research Center, Rome, Italy
    • Sep 2018-Aug 2020 Scientific Editor at Zanichelli Editore S.p.A., Bologna, Italy
    • Oct 2017-Mar 2018 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
    Education
    • Feb 2018 Ph.D. in Physics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Leipzig, Germany
      Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald E. Möller
    • Sep 2013 Master in Physics, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
      Supervisor: Prof. Joachim Mathiesen
    • Dec 2010 Bachelor in Physics, University of Bologna, Italy.
      Supervisor: Prof. Nico Lanconelli

    An extended PDF version of the CV can be downloaded here.


    Publications

    Published papers
    • Maria Guidi, Giovanni Giulietti, Harald E. Möller, David G. Norris, and Federico Giove. Cortical depth-dependent effects of thermal and physiological denoising in BOLD fMRI. In press, Il Nuovo Cimento - Colloquia and Communications in Physics, 2025.
    • Fabio Mangini, Marta Moraschi, Daniele Mascali, Maria Guidi, Michela Fratini, Silvia Mangia, Fabrizio Frezza, and Federico Giove. Towards whole brain mapping of the haemodynamic response function. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, 2025. link
    • Irene Egidi, Maria Guidi, and Federico Giove. Compartmentalisation of sodium in the human brain: a mini-review of 23 Na-MRI methods. Frontiers in Physics, 2025(13). link
    • Maria Guidi, Mauro DiNuzzo, and Federico Giove. Invecchiamento cerebrale – Valutazione mediante neuroimmagini MR. La Neurologia Italiana, XIX (2023), 13-20. link
    • Maria Guidi, Giovanni Giulietti, Emma Biondetti, Richard Wise, and Federico Giove. Towards high-resolution quantitative assessment of vascular dysfunction. Frontiers in Physics, 2023. link
    • Mauro DiNuzzo, Daniele Mascali, Giorgia Bussu, Marta Moraschi, Maria Guidi, Emiliano Macaluso, Silvia Mangia, and Federico Giove. Hemispheric functional segregation facilitates target detection during sustained visuospatial attention. Human Brain Mapping, 2022. link
    • Maria Guidi, Laurentius Huber, Leonie Lampe, Alberto Merola, Kristin Ihle, and Harald E. Möller. Cortical laminar resting-state signal fluctuations scale with the hypercapnic blood oxygenation level-dependent response. Human Brain Mapping, 41(8), 2020. link
    • Laurentius Huber, Dimo Ivanov, Daniel A. Handwerker, Sean Marrett, Maria Guidi, Kâmil Uludağ, Peter A. Bandettini, and Benedikt A. Poser. Techniques for blood volume fMRI with VASO: From low-resolution mapping towards sub-millimeter layer-dependent applications. NeuroImage, 2018. link
    • Laurentius Huber, Daniel A. Handwerker, David C. Jangraw, Gang Chen, Andrew Hall, Carsten Stüber, Javier Gonzalez-Castillo, Dimo Ivanov, Sean Thomas Marrett, Maria Guidi, Jozien Goense, Benedikt A. Poser, and Peter A. Bandettini. High-Resolution CBV-fMRI Allows Mapping of Laminar Activity and Connectivity of Cortical Input and Output in Human M1. Neuron, 96(6), 2017. link
    • Maria Guidi, Laurentius Huber, Leonie Lampe, Claudine J. Gauthier, and Harald E. Möller. Lamina-dependent calibrated BOLD response in human primary motor cortex. NeuroImage, 141:250–261, 2016. link
    • Amalie Christensen, Christophe Raufaste, Marek Krzysztof Misztal, Franck Celestini, Maria Guidi, Clive Ellegaard, and Joachim Mathiesen. Scale selection in columnar jointing: Insights from experiments on cooling stearic acid and numerical simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 121 (3), 2016. link
    • Laurentius Huber, Dimo Ivanov, Maria Guidi, Robert Turner, Kâmil Uludağ, Harald E. Möller, and Benedikt A. Poser. Functional cerebral blood volume mapping with simultaneous multi-slice acquisition. NeuroImage, 125:1159–1168, 2016. link
    • Laurentius Huber, Jozien Goense, Aneurin J. Kennerley, Robert Trampel, Maria Guidi, Enrico Reimer, Dimo Ivanov, Nicole Neef, Claudine J. Gauthier, Robert Turner, and Harald E. Möller. Cortical lamina-dependent blood volume changes in human brain at 7 T. NeuroImage, 107:23–33, 2015. link

    Talks


    • Maria Guidi, Giovanni Giulietti, Harald E. Möller, David G. Norris, and Federico Giove. Depth-Dependent Effects of Thermal and Physiological Noise Reduction in BOLD fMRI. Proceedings of the ISMRM Workshop Current Issues in Brain Function, Padua, Italy, 2023.
    • Maria Guidi, Fabio Mangini, Marta Moraschi, Daniele Mascali, Michela Fratini, Silvia Mangia, Fabrizio Frezza, and Federico Giove. Towards whole brain mapping of the hemodynamic response function. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Toronto, ON, Canada, abstract 1175, 2023.
    • Maria Guidi. FMRI at high-resolution - issues and workarounds. Workshop on Multimodal Approach for Biomedical Application, Sapienza University, Rome, April 21st, 2023.
    • Alberto Merola, Maria Guidi, and Nikolaus Weiskopf. Hypercapnic and hyperoxic laminar calibrated BOLD: are conventional models adequate? Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Paris, France, abstract 397, 2018.
    • Maria Guidi, Irati Markuerkiaga, Lauren J. Bains, Laurentius Huber, Harald E. Möller, and David G. Norris. Frequency signature of cortical laminar fMRI. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Honolulu, HI, USA, abstract 158, 2017.
    • Laurentius Huber, Daniel A. Handwerker, Andrew Hall, David C. Jangraw, Javier Gonzales-Castillo, Maria Guidi, Dimo Ivanov, Benedikt A. Poser, and Peter A. Bandettini. Cortical depth-dependent fMRI: heterogeneity across tasks, across participants, across days and along the cortical ribbon. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Honolulu, HI, USA, abstract 237, 2017.
    • Maria Guidi, Laurentius Huber, Leonie Lampe, and Harald E. Möller. Cortical laminar resting-state fluctuations scale with hypercapnic response. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Singapore, abstract 769, 2016.
    • Laurentius Huber, Daniel Handwerker, Javier Gonzales-Castillo, Sean Marrett, Maria Guidi, Dimo Ivanov, Benedikt Poser, Jozien Goense, and Peter A. Bandettini. Directional connectivity measured with layer-dependent fMRI in human sensory-motor system. 3rd Biennial Whistler Scientific Workshop on Brain Functional Organization, Connectivity and Behavior, Whistler, BC, Canada, 2016.
    • Laurentius Huber, Daniel Handwerker, Javier Gonzales-Castillo, David Jangraw, Maria Guidi, Dimo Ivanov, Benedikt A. Poser, Jozien B.M. Goense, and Peter A. Bandettini. Effective Connectivity Measured with Layer-Dependent Resting-State Blood Volume FMRI in Humans. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Singapore, abstract 948, 2016.
    • Maria Guidi, Laurentius Huber, Leonie Lampe, Claudine J. Gauthier, and Harald E. Möller. Layer-dependent calibrated BOLD response in human M1. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Toronto, ON, Canada, abstract 358, 2015.
    • Maria Guidi, Laurentius Huber, Leonie Lampe, Claudine J. Gauthier, and Harald E. Möller. Layer-dependent calibrated BOLD in human M1. 1st Summer School of Ultra-High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Isola d’Elba, Italy, 2015.
    • Laurentius Huber, Dimo Ivanov, Maria Guidi, Rober Turner, Kâmil Uludağ, and Harald E. Möller. Simultaneous multi-slice functional CBV measurements at 7 T. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Toronto, ON, Canada, abstract 600, 2015.
    • Harald E. Möller, Laurentius Huber, Maria Guidi, Juliane Dinse, and Pierre Louis Bazin. Unraveling cortical laminae with anatomical and functional MRI at 7.0 T. 6th Annual Scientific Symposium on Ultrahigh Field Magnetic Resonance, Berlin, Germany, 2015.
    • Harald E. Möller, Laurentius Huber, Maria Guidi, and Robert Turner. Beyond BOLD-based fMRI: High-resolution mapping of blood volume changes related to neural activity. 1st Summer School of Ultra-High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Isola d’Elba, Italy, 2015.
    • Maria Guidi, Laurentius Huber, Leonie Lampe, Claudine J. Gauthier, and Harald E. Möller. Layer-dependent calibrated BOLD in human M1. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Imaging Cerebral Physiology: Manipulating Magnetic Resonance Contrast through Respiratory Challenges, Leipzig, Germany, 2014.
    • Laurentius Huber, Jozien B.M. Goense, Aneurin Kennerley, Robert Trampel, Maria Guidi, Claudine J. Gauthier, Robert Turner, and Harald E. Möller. Layer-dependent CBV and BOLD responses in humans, monkeys, and rats at 7T. ISMRM Workshop on Functional MRI: Emerging Techniques and New Interpretations, Charleston, SC, USA, 2014.
    • Laurentius Huber, Aneurin Kennerley, Claudine J. Gauthier, Steffen Krieger, Maria Guidi, Dimo Ivanov, Robert Turner, and Harald E. Möller. Cerebral blood volume redistribution during hypercapnia. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Imaging Cerebral Physiology: Manipulating Magnetic Resonance Contrast through Respiratory Challenges, Leipzig, Germany, 2014.