Kevin Sitek
Kevin Sitek, Ph.D., is a Research Assistant Professor in the Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northwestern University. Dr. Sitek received his Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology from Harvard University, where he studied the anatomy and connectivity of the human subcortical auditory system at the MIT McGovern Institute for Brain Research. He then completed postdoctoral work in the Department of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine, where he focused on ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the human brainstem. Before joining Northwestern, he was a research scientist in the Department of Communication Science and Disorders at the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Sitek’s research focuses on mapping the brain regions, connections, and representations that enable human hearing and communication. To understand the human auditory system, he has published work using electroencephalography, diffusion-weighted MRI structural connectivity, functional MRI connectivity, task-based functional MRI, and post mortem histology and anatomical MRI. In the SoundBrain Lab at Northwestern University, Dr. Sitek is investigating representations of speech sounds and connectivity across the human auditory system using MRI. His work is supported by grants from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders at the National Institutes of Health.
Education
- PhD in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology, Harvard University
- BA in Linguistics and Cognitive Science, UC Berkeley