Biography
Dr Batalle is a lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience and the Centre for Developing Brain at the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, contributing to both the Developing Human Connectome and AIMS-2-TRIALS projects.
Both a telecommunications engineer and a neuroscientist by training, Dr Batalle uses mathematical tools and computational models to study the emergence of brain organisation during early development and how subtle alterations in key developmental processes lead to neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and ADHD. He is particularly interested in the use of whole-brain computational models, graph theory, signal processing and machine learning tools to characterise brain networks and find early markers associated to atypical neurodevelopmental trajectories.
Research interests
- Structural and functional brain networks
- Dynamic functional connectivity
- Graph theory and computational models
- Interaction of clinical, social and genetic risk factors with brain development
Research groups
Teaching
Module leader:
- 7PCFLDST: MSC in Clinical Neurodevelopmental Science: Dissertation Module
- 5MBBS203SSC46: MBBS SSC: Applied programming in medicine: an introduction to neuroimaging
Teaching:
- 7MIGEP42: Medical Imaging Biology
- 7MRWWC01: Fundamentals of Women and Children’s Health
- 7MRI0030: Medical Imaging in Clinical Applications
Publications
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZJYE5x8AAAAJ&hl=en
Pure publications:
https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/dafnis-batalle(594a5a66-51aa-421c-8863-39c245d3d93c)/publications.html
Selected publications:
Ní Bhroin M, Seada SA, Bonthrone AF, Kelly C, Christiaens D, Schuh A, Pietsch M, Hutter J, Tournier J-D, Cordero-Grande L, Rueckert D, Hajnal JV, Pusharajah K, Simpson J, Edwards AD, Rutherford MA, Counsell SJ, Batalle D; Reduced structural connectivity in cortico-striatal-thalamic network in neonates with congenital heart disease; NeuroImge:Clinical, 2020; 28:102423
Gale-Grant O, Christiaens D, Cordero-Grande L, Chew A, Falconer S, Makropoulos A, Harper N, Price AN, Hutter J, Hughes E, Victor S, Counsel SJ, Rueckert D, Hajnal JV, Edwards AD, O’Muircheartaigh J*, Batalle D*, Parental Age Effects on Neonatal White Matter Development. Neuroimage: Clinical, 2020; 20, 102283.
Batalle D, O’Muircheartaigh J, Makropoulos A, Kelly CJ, Dimitrova R, Hughes E, Hajnal JV, Zhang H, Alexander DC, Edwards AD, Counsell SJ; Different patterns of cortical maturation before and after 38 weeks gestational age demonstrated by diffusion MRI in vivo; Neuroimage, 2019, 185, pp. 764-775
Batalle D, Edwards AD, O’Muircheartaigh J; Annual Research Review: Not just a small adult brain: understanding later neurodevelopment through imaging the neonatal brain; Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 2018, 59(4), pp. 350-371
Batalle D, Hughes EJ, Zhang H, Tournier J-D, Tusor N, Aljabar P, Wali L, Alexander DC, Hajnal JV, Nosarti C, Edwards AD, Counsell SJ; Early development of structural networks and the impact of prematurity on brain connectivity; Neuroimage, 2017, 149, pp. 379-392
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Grigorescu, I., Uus, A., Christiaens, D., Cordero-Grande, L., Hutter, J., Batalle, D., Edwards, D., Hajnal, J., Modat, M. & Deprez, M., 22 Sep 2022, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Vol. 13575. Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17117-8_7
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Uus, A. U., Ayub, M. U., Gartner, A., Kyriakopoulou, V., Pietsch, M., Grigorescu, I., Christiaens, D., Hutter, J., Grande, L. C., Price, A., Batalle, D., Counsell, S., Hajnal, J. V., Edwards, A. D., Rutherford, M. A. & Deprez, M., 22 Sep 2022, Perinatal, Preterm and Paediatric Image Analysis - 7th International Workshop, PIPPI 2022, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2022, Proceedings. Licandro, R., Licandro, R., Melbourne, A., Hutter, J., Abaci Turk, E. & Macgowan, C. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 94-104 11 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 13575 LNCS). Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17117-8_9
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Yates, A. G., Kislitsyna, E., Alfonso Martin, C., Zhang, J., Sewell, A. L., Goikolea-Vives, A., Cai, V., Alkhader, L. F., Skaland, A., Hammond, B., Dimitrova, R., Batalle, D., Fernandes, C., Edwards, A. D., Gressens, P., Thornton, C. & Stolp, H. B., 29 Oct 2022, In: Journal of neuroinflammation. 19, 1, p. 265 265. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12974-022-02625-5
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Fenn-Moltu, S., Fitzgibbon, S. P., Ciarrusta, J., Eyre, M., Cordero-Grande, L., Chew, A., Falconer, S., Gale-Grant, O., Harper, N., Dimitrova, R., Vecchiato, K., Fenchel, D., Javed, A., Earl, M., Price, A., Hughes, E., Duff, E. P., O'Muircheartaigh, J., Nosarti, C., Arichi, T., & 6 othersRueckert, D., Counsell, S., Hajnal, J., Edwards, D., McAlonan, G. & Batalle, D., 20 Nov 2022, In: Cerebral Cortex. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac444
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Lautarescu, A., Bonthrone, A., Pietsch, M., Batalle, D., Cordero-Grande, L., Tournier, J-D., Christiaens, D., Hajnal, J., Chew, A., Falconer, S., Nosarti, C., Victor, S., Craig, M. C., Edwards, D. & Counsell, S., 9 Aug 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Translational psychiatry. 323 . Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.28.22274095, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-022-02073-y
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Bonthrone, A., Chew, A., Ní Bhroin, M., Morassutti Rech, F., Kelly, C., Christiaens, D., Pietsch, M., Tournier, J-D., Cordero-Grande, L., Price, A., Egloff Collado, A., Hajnal, J., Pushparajah, K., Simpson, J., Edwards, D., Rutherford, M., Nosarti, C., Batalle, D. & Counsell, S., 12 Aug 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: NeuroImage: Clinical. 36, 103153. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103153
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Edwards, A. D., Rueckert, D., Smith, S. M., Abo Seada, S., Alansary, A., Almalbis, J., Allsop, J., Andersson, J., Arichi, T., Arulkumaran, S., Bastiani, M., Batalle, D., Baxter, L., Bozek, J., Braithwaite, E., Brandon, J., Carney, O., Chew, A., Christiaens, D., Chung, R., & 54 othersColford, K., Cordero-Grande, L., Counsell, S., Cullen, H., Cupitt, J., Curtis, C., Davidson, A., Deprez, M., Dillon, L., Dimitrakopoulou, K., Dimitrova, R., Duff, E. P., Falconer, S., Farahibozorg, S-R., Fitzgibbon, S. P., Gao, J., Gaspar, A., Harper, N., Harrison, S., Hughes, E., Hutter, J., Jenkinson, M., Jbabdi, S., Jones, E., Karolis, V., Kyriakopoulou, V., Lenz, G., Makropoulos, A., Malik, S., Mason, L., Mortari, F., Nosarti, C., Nunes, R. G., O'Keeffe, C., O'Muircheartaigh, J., Patel, H., Passerat-Palmbach, J., Pietsch, M., Price, A., Robinson, E., Rutherford, M., Schuh, A., Sotiropoulos, S., Steinweg, J., Teixeira, R. P. A. G., Tenev, T., Tournier, J-D., Tusor, N., Uus, A., Vecchiato, K., Williams, L., Wright, R., Wurie, J. & Hajnal, J., 23 May 2022, In: Frontiers in Neuroscience. 16, 886772. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.886772
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Ciarrusta Monzon, J., Christiaens, D., Fitzgibbon, S., Dimitrova, R., Hutter, J., Hughes, E., Duff, E. P., Price, A., Cordero-Grande, L., Tournier, J-D., Rueckert, D., Hajnal, J., Arichi, T., McAlonan, G., Edwards, D. & Batalle, D., Jun 2022, In: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 55, 101117. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101117
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Taoudi-Benchekroun, Y., Christiaens, D., Grigorescu, I., Gale-Grant, O., Schuh, A., Pietsch, M., Chew, A., Harper, N., Falconer, S., Poppe, T., Hughes, E., Hutter, J., Price, A., Tournier, J-D., Cordero-Grande, L., Counsell, S., Rueckert, D., Arichi, T., Hajnal, J., Edwards, D., & 2 othersDeprez, M. & Batalle, D., 15 Aug 2022, In: NeuroImage. 257, 119319. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119319
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Fenchel, D., Dimitrova, R., Robinson, E., Batalle, D., Chew, A., Falconer, S., Kyriakopoulou, V., Nosarti, C., Hutter, J., Christiaens, D., Pietsch, M., Brandon, J., Hughes, E., Allsop, J., O'Keeffe, C., Price, A., Cordero-Grande, L., Hajnal, J., Schuh, A., Makropoulos, A., & 6 othersPasserat-Palmbach, J., Bozek, J., Rueckert, D., McAlonan, G., Edwards, D. & O'Muircheartaigh, J., 23 Mar 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review