OHBM Award Winners - 2025
Authors: Ashley Tyrer
Editors: Zaki Alasmar
Congratulations to all of the 2025 OHBM Award Winners!
Each year, the Organization for Human Brain Mapping recognizes members of the human brain mapping field for their outstanding contributions, both to the field and the scientific community as a whole.
We would therefore like to congratulate all the awardees who were recognized at the 2025 OHBM Annual Meeting in Brisbane, Australia!
In previous years, the OHBM Communication Committee has published a series of blog posts to further celebrate the award recipients and showcase their contributions to the field. We are continuing with the Award Winner Interview Series this year and are excited to share with you some insights from this inspirational group of scientists. We are also introducing a new format: the ‘Flash Interviews’, which consist of short video interviews with quick-fire questions!
Watch this space for the Award Winner Interviews in the coming weeks!
The 2025 OHBM Award Winners are:
Diversity and Inclusivity Champion Award: Elvisha Dhamala, for her significant contributions to increasing diversity and inclusivity within the field of human brain mapping.
Early Career Investigator Award: James “Mac” Shine, for his significant contributions as an early career researcher to the field of human brain mapping.
Education in Neuroimaging Award: Jack Van Horn, for his significant contribution to education and training in the field of neuroimaging.
Glass Brain Award: Stephen Smith, for his lifetime achievements of leading researchers to discover original and influential findings regarding the organization and function of the human brain.
Karl Zilles Award in Integrative Neuroscience: Meiqi Niu, for her work in integrating modern neuroanatomical approaches with multi-modal in-vivo neuroimaging.
Mentor Award: Amy Brodtmann, for her leadership in developing early career researchers, including undergraduates, graduates, and postdoctoral trainees.
Open Science Award: Neda Jahanshad, for her sustained and impactful efforts in the area of open science.
Replication Award: Denis Chaimow, for his commitment to reproducibility in neuroimaging research and incentives valuable replication research.
Sustainability Award: Loïc Lannelongue, for his impactful efforts in adopting sustainable, environmentally friendly practices in their research activities and raising the consciousness within the OHBM community on environmental issues.
2025 Fellows of Organization for Human Brain Mapping: Juan Helen Zhou and Lucina Q. Uddin, for demonstrating academic and intellectual leadership in the disciplines represented by the Organization for Human Brain Mapping over an extended period of time.
Editor’s Choice Awards:
Christopher Rorden received the award for Aperture Neuro 2024 Best Paper for their work: "niimath and fslmaths: replication as a method to enhance popular neuroimaging tools"
Kevin Sitek was awarded the Aperture Neuro 2024 Best Reviewer Award
Holly Schofield received the Imaging Neuroscience 2024 Paper of the Year Award for their work: "A novel, robust, and portable platform for magnetoencephalography using optically-pumped magnetometers"
Sarah Weinstein received the Human Brain Mapping 2024/2025 Best Paper Award for their work: "Network enrichment significance testing in brain-phenotype association studies"
Kamilla Avelino-de-Souza was awarded the Brain Structure & Function 2024 Best Paper Award for their work: "Anatomical and volumetric description of the guiana dolphin (Sotalia guianensis) brain from an ultra-high-field magnetic resonance imaging"
Stephania Assimopoulos was the Runner-Up for the Brain Structure & Function 2024 Best Paper Award for their work: "Generalising XTRACT tractography protocols across common macaque brain templates"
