MindCORE Neuroimaging Facility

Leadership

Brock Kirwan, PhD

Brock Kirwan is the inaugural Director of the MindCORE Neuroimaging Facility, responsible for oversight of daily operations, including facility maintenance, financial management, and training and support of a community of users, including teaching the next generation of brain researchers at Penn.

Kirwan joined Penn from Brigham Young University, where he was a professor in the department of psychology and neuroscience from 2009 to 2024, and director of its MRI Research Facility. Kirwan completed his PhD at Johns Hopkins University and a postdoc at UC San Diego. His own research focuses on the brain mechanisms that allow people to form and retain long-term memories and then use those memories to guide future action.

Contact Brock Kirwan: bkirwan@sas.upenn.edu

Advisory Committee

• Joe Kable, Faculty Director; Jean-Marie Kneeley President’s Distinguished Professor of Psychology & Marketing
• Allyson Mackey, Associate Professor, Psychology
• Emily Falk, Professor of Communication, Psychology, Marketing, and OID (Operations, Informatics, and Decisions); Vice Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication
• Michael Arcaro, Assistant Professor, Psychology