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A head for solving problems - and studying the human brain
NUS researcher's fascination with the brain takes him from engineering to neuroscience
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Assistant Professor Thomas Yeo with a magnetic resonance imaging scan of a human brain. The machine can be used to detect tumours or dementia. His main research interests include finding out how different people are vulnerable to mental disorders.
ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG
Jose Hong
Until he was 14, Assistant Professor Thomas Yeo had been obsessed with solving problems, but that interest turned towards something more specific - medicine - when his father suffered a stroke.
Now, 24 years later, the National University of Singapore (NUS) don can proudly count brain-scanning software used worldwide among his many achievements.
