Rate My Professor Karla Miller

Karla Miller is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (OxCIN). She holds a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship and serves as Associate Head for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Medical Sciences Division. Miller earned a BS in computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a PhD from Stanford University in 2004, where her thesis focused on novel methods for steady-state neuroimaging under the supervision of John M. Pauly. She joined the University of Oxford as a postdoctoral fellow in 2004, received a research fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering and EPSRC in 2006, was appointed research lecturer in 2007, and was promoted to Professor of Biomedical Engineering in 2014.

Miller leads the MRI Physics Group at OxCIN and develops advanced magnetic resonance imaging techniques to improve signal sensitivity and specificity for studying brain microstructure, connectivity, and neuronal health. Her work includes post-mortem brain imaging combined with microscopy, ultra-high field diffusion and functional MRI methods, and biophysically principled data harmonisation approaches to support large-scale studies such as UK Biobank. She developed the UK Biobank brain imaging protocols and has contributed to key publications including the 2016 Nature Neuroscience paper on multimodal population brain imaging in UK Biobank. Miller was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine in 2016 and is actively involved in collaborations advancing neuroimaging for basic neuroscience and brain health research.