Quinones, Juan

• Present    Postdoctoral fellow – Centre for Environmental Neuroscience
• 2020 – 2023    Dr. rer. nat.    Audiovisual Integration Brain Connectivity in Full-Term and Preterm Neonates – Oldenburg University.
• 2017 – 2019    MSc.    Heritability of Brain Structural Connectivity within the Face-Processing network. – Oldenburg University.
• 2011 – 2015    BSc.    Psychology – Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogota, Colombia.

Main Focus

• Apply multivariate methods to study how physical environmental factors relate to brain structure and function across the lifespan.
• Leverage machine learning techniques on large, high-dimensional datasets to identify environmental profiles and their associations with brain development and aging.
• Employ functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to assess the real-time impact of urban and natural environments on brain activity.

Projects

• Base-II
• Multivariate associations between environmental factors and brain features (analysis of large available data sets)

Selected publications

• Quinones, J. F., Banaschewski, T., Bokde, A. L. W., Desrivières, S., Flor, H., Garavan, H., Gowland, P., Grigis, A., Heinz, A., Lemaitre, H., Martinot, J.-L., Paillère Martinot, M.-L., Artiges, E., Nees, F., Papadopoulos Orfanos, D., Poustka, L., Smolka, M. N., Hohmann, S., Holz, N., Vaidya, N., … Kühn, S. (2026). Developing brains and changing worlds: Macroenvironmental changes and their association with brain development. Environmental Research, 293, Article 123624. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2025.123624
• Juan F. Quinones, Carsten Gießing, Axel Heep, Andrea Hildebrandt; Audiovisual integration and whole-brain networks in preterm and full-term neonates: A two-layer multiplex network perspective on structural and functional connectivity. Imaging Neuroscience 2025; 3 IMAG.a.928. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.928.
• Quinones, J. F., Hildebrandt, A., Pavan, T., Thiel, C., & Heep, A. (2023). Preterm birth and neonatal white matter microstructure in in-vivo reconstructed fiber tracts among audiovisual integration brain regions. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 101202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101202
• Quinones, J. F., Pavan, T., Liu, X., Thiel, C. M., Heep, A., & Hildebrandt, A. (2022). Fiber tracing and microstructural characterization among audiovisual integration brain regions in neonates compared with young adults. NeuroImage, 254(June 2021), 119141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119141
• Quinones Sanchez, J. F., Liu, X., Zhou, C., & Hildebrandt, A. (2021). Nature and nurture shape structural connectivity in the face processing brain network. NeuroImage, 229, Article 117736. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117736